The phrase "a pippin" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a type of apple or to describe something as excellent or remarkable, often in a colloquial context.
Example: "That was a pippin of a performance, truly unforgettable."
Alternatives: "a gem" or "a beauty".
Here's a Pippin, grown--perfidy--in Lebanon, New Jersey.
Maybe I was rash in describing Ms. Paulus's production as a "Pippin" for the 21st century.
Dr. T.H. Jukes, of Lederle, came up with a pippin this year.
This is also a "Pippin" for the age of the gym bunny.
He is even developing a Pippin planting for Dave Matthews, the rock musician.
Last night's 5 1 Mets win against the Yankees was a pippin, a shining little late-summer entertainment to be noted on the fly.
Size selection of fragments between 300 450 bp was performed using a Pippin-Prep 2% gel cassette (Sage Sciences, Beverly, MA).
First played by John Rubinstein as a hippie without a cause, Pippin has been reconceived as a more contemporary, though still passive, emblem of innocence.
The final BRL and NRL libraries were size-selected by means of a 3% Pippin Prep cassette (Sage) and a 6% polyacrylamide gel (Invitrogen), respectively, and sequenced on an Illumina HiScan SQ instrument.
Next, the pooled DNA is loaded onto a Blue Pippin (Sage Science, Beverly, MA) and narrow size selection is performed with a target of 400 bp.
Andrea Martin (Best Featured Actress in a Musical, "Pippin") c.
