With this deal Uncle Tom's got on with Homer Cream, it would be fatal to risk giving [Mrs Cream] thepip in any way.
1980 August 16, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, inGay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page22:
So sorry that you caught thepip On our most recent northward trip But you'll be better soon I'm hopin' Cause with the mornings I'm not copin' Some nerve. Tell those nasty viruses to Bug off!
“I frankly couldn't give a cat's knuckle about Gizmo. I mean, he's just kind of this fluttering lickspittle that is always bouncing about, always behind Nandor. But Nandor likes him.” “Oh, shut up, Colin Robinson. You're giving me thepip.”
1995, John Pairman Brown,Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft;231), volume 1, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter,→ISBN, page134:
On most of the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, before any historical record, the cultivated grape vine,Vitis vinifera Linn., was grown. Its relationship to the wild vine of Eurasia,Vitis silvestris Gmel., is uncertain. Itspips can mostly be distinguished from those of the wild vine, and have been found in Egypt and Syrian Hama from the fourth millennium BC, at Lachish and Jericho in the early Bronze, at Troy II during the Bronze, in the Peloponnesus from Early Helladic, in Crete from the Early Minoan.
Applepips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.
He led throughout the race but waspipped at the post.
2022 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham: Gunners show identity & direction in outstanding derby win”, inBBC Sport[2]:
Arteta faced much scrutiny after Spurspipped the Gunners to Champions League football on the final day of last season, with opposite numberConte deservedly hailed for the transformation he had overseen in just a few months at the helm.
2023 August 24, Rob Crilly, “Vivek Ramaswamy beats Ron DeSantis for best performance AND tops Donald Trump as the 'real winner' in poll of the Republican debate”, inDaily Mail[3]:
Some 28 percent said he was the best performer,pipping DeSantis by one point
One of a series of very short, electronically producedtones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a giventime or to indicate that acaller using apayphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
1982, John Banville,The Newton Letter:
I could clearly hear the frequent cataclysms of the upstairs lavatory, and my day began with thepips for the morning news in Charlotte Lawless's kitchen.
2015, Abe Cofnas, “Trading Styles and Strategies”, inThe Forex Trading Course: A Self-study Guide to Becoming a Successful Currency Trader, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.:John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN, part II (Timing the Trade with Technical Analysis),page157:
The set-and-forget trader is playing fundamental direction and is seeking very large moves of 150 to 300pips. This trader doesn't want to sit and watch the screen but play the longer moves and forces behind forex.
The word was borrowed into West Germanic before the High German consonant shift as*pippit, whenceOld High Germanpfipfiz and (Central German)pipz,*pippiz (modernGermanPips, obsoletePfipfs). In Dutch and Low German we should expect a form such as*pippet, which is not attested, however. One possibility is that these dialects borrowed the Central German form and the finals-sound was later reanalysed as the genitive suffix. Middle Dutch also hadpipeye, fromOld Frenchpipie.
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pip”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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