pipnoun
uk/pɪp/us/pɪp/pip noun (SEED)
[ C ] UK US seed one of the small seeds of a fruit such as an apple or an orange
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Fruits & seeds & their parts
- acorn
- berry
- chaff
- coffee bean
- endosperm
- fruiterer
- grain
- mielie
- nut
- pine cone
- pine nut
- pit
- pith
- seeded
- seeded
- sesame seed
- stalk
- thistledown
- windfall
- zest
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pip noun (SOUND)
[ C usually plural ] mainly UK a short, high sound, especially one of a series:
She turned on the radio and heard the five o'clock pips.
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Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- clash
- crackling
- ding
- ding-a-ling
- ding-dong
- fizz
- hoot
- jangling
- knock
- rasp
- ringer
- rumbling
- sing
- slam
- swish
- thud
- ting
- twang
- whine
- whistle
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pipverb [ T ]
uk/pɪp/us/pɪp/-pp- UK informalto beat someone either by a very small amount or right at the end of a competition:
I got through to the final interview, but I was pipped at the post (= in the final stage) by a candidate with better qualifications.
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Winning, losing & scoring in sport
- against the run of play idiom
- close-run
- convincing
- do the double over sb idiom
- drubbing
- game changer
- game-changing
- hold
- lead 1
- pummel
- retire
- run away with sth
- sink
- square
- strike gold idiom
- varsity
- walkaway
- walkover
- win
- won
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