"pip" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is most often used as a noun to refer to a small seed or a seed-like object. It is also used as an informal unit of measure, similar to teaspoon or tablespoon. For example, "I added just a pinch of salt, about a pip's worth".
With his wispy hair and kind, boyish eyes contradicting his forehead's filigree wrinkles, all he needs is a battered top hat to make him look like a gold-hearted Dickensian goodie, a Pip of late middle age.
Whether after recent results – including the manic second leg of their semi-final against Sheffield United, when they led 3-0, 4-2 and 5-3 witwotwo minutes to go and eventually clung on to a draw – they retain enough confidence to pip Preston we will soon find out.
His parents' house in Herne Bay, Kent, was over the road from that of another clown here, Carol Bosworth, aka Pip.
Pip is a heavy social media user, and advertises his email account ([email protected]) on Twitter.
These eye-witness accounts just pip Studs Turkel's similar The Good War at the post, with first hand testimony by everyone from Lord Mountbatten to Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge, and the poor chaps on the ground who had to do the actual fighting.
Ms Livni, who came from behind to pip Mr Netanyahu at the post, is still fighting hard to keep him out of the prime minister's seat, despite the arithmetical handicap dealt by the results.
Pip Forrester, a distinguished restaurateur who runs the school, tells me they come for cooking, rather than golf or abseiling, as a group activity.
The combined firm, which will pip Britain's WPP to become the industry's biggest, hopes size will give it an edge in the growing market for data-driven digital ads.
(Mr Neves could probably stomach a bigger adjustment but despite a late uptick in the polls he will find it hard to pip Ms Silva to the run-off on October 26th let alone beat Ms Rousseff).
That could boost Wendy's market capitalisation to $8.3 billion, Pershing says, from $5.7 billion now.In this section Dark days for Volkswagen A new motown A PIP of progress Restoring magic Thin pickings A double dose of data Whirring, not purring India's high-flying liquor king ReprintsWendy's declines to comment on these proposals.
