pip
琵琶,琵琶声,琵琶网,琵琶语
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- : one of the spots on dice, playing cards, or dominoes: You need to match the two pips on this domino with two pips on one of your dominoes.
- : each of the small segments into which the surface of a pineapple is divided: Cut off the top of the pineapple, slicing through the first row of pips.
- : Informal. metal insigne of rank on the shoulders of commissioned officers: the museum's collection of German pips and buttons.
- : Horticulture. an individual rootstock of a plant, especially of the lily of the valley: This low-growing perennial forms dense clumps from its slender pips.a portion of the rootstock or root of several other plants: The peony's pips are those budlike growths at the top of the tuber.
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And then there was Pip, the boy in the novel who also falls in love with her.
But it took another 20 years for his son, Owen “Pip” Brennan, Jr. to make the Krewe synonymous with Mardi Gras.
Pip walking down the hallway of her adolescence sporting unromantic hair.
The allusion is to a game of cards called one-and-thirty; thirty-two is a pip too many.
He told them that at Railhead were many bad pip-ple, who swore, and drank a great deal more than was good for them.
It spreads rapidly, sending up a flower-stalk from every "pip."
There's Miss Pamela, that ought to be goin' to be married a week from next Tuesday, goin' round as mopy as a chicken wid the pip.
All this time he was tilting poor Pip backwards till he was dreadfully frightened and giddy.