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pipper

English

Etymology 1

PIP +? -er

Noun

pipper (plural pippers)

  1. (military, slang) A marker indicating the PIP (predicted impact point) on a head-up display.

Etymology 2

pip +? -er

Noun

pipper (plural pippers)

  1. (military, slang, in combination) A person wearing the specific number of stars on the shoulder of their uniform, implying a particular rank.
    • 1918, The Tatler (volume 67, page 306)
      Our caricaturist, Lieutenant Fred May, has this week specialised in “three pippers,” as all of the officers in the above collection, have attained to captain's rank, and have all, so we understand, been “through it" []

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Etymology

From Middle English peper, from Old English pipor.

Noun

pipper

  1. pepper

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

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sipper

English

Etymology

sip +? -er

Noun

sipper (plural sippers)

  1. One who sips.
  2. A glass with a narrow tube on one side, for sipping port etc.

Anagrams

  • PIREPs, pipers

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