bip

See also: BIP, bíp, and bịp

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Bila with p as a placeholder.

Symbol

bip

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bila.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bila terms

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Verb

bip (third-person singular simple present bips, present participle bipping, simple past and past participle bipped)

1. (informal) To make or cause to make a short beeping or blipping sound.
   • 2011, David Cullen, The Byblos Discovery, page 275:

     Jihad Merhi bipped the horn as he pulled up in his Land Cruiser outside chez Lattouf.

2. (informal, transitive) To hit lightly.

   Synonyms: bop, boop

   • A. P. Vasko, 33 Miracles (page 188)

     After the entire table burst into laughter, she playfully bipped the man in the mouth and followed it with a kiss.

   • 2003, C. D. Blizzard, Broken:

     I swung the bat, barely bipped the ball, and sent it spinning off into a neighbor's yard. That was the closest I'd come to hitting that thing all day.

3. (Bay Area, California slang) To break into a car and steal its contents.
   1. (by extension) To rob; steal.

      So many cars get bipped on that street.

      • 1972, Bruce Jackson, In the Life: Versions of the Criminal Experience‎, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, I.L.; San Francisco, C.A.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 82:

        Around Christmas of that year me and a friend was going to go up through Oklahoma bipping — scallybipping [burglarizing a house when they saw the wife out back hanging clothes], you know. We had been doing it around Houston, Dallas, places like that, but now we was going to go up through the States.

Translations

to hit lightly

Galician: chincar, chiscar (gl) Spanish: golpetear (es)

Noun

bip (plural bips)

1. (Bay Area, California slang) Synonym of spliff.
   • 2020 October 10, “Toot That Sh!t Up”, Kai Bandz (lyrics), 1:34:

     My niggas getting greasy with them licks, nigga
     But these free banks, I ain’t use no bip, nigga

   • 2022 March 11, “B$G Intro” (track 1, right in the beginning), in Baby Stone Gorillas (lyrics), BABYST5XNE GORILLAS‎:

     You have your bip on you?
     'Cause if you ain't got no bip on you, I ain't hangin' out with you

2. (finance) Abbreviation of basis point.
3. (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) Can refer to multiple different things, but usually refers to a piece that someone owns, most often a gun or a haircut.

Anagrams

• BPI, PBI, PIB, PiB, pib

Bahnar

Etymology

From Chamic. Compare Rade bip (“duck”).

The common Bahnaric term for "duck" was *ʔədaː.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːp/

Noun

bip

1. duck

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

bip m (plural bips)

1. beep (short, electronically-produced sound)

Derived terms

• biper

Anagrams

• PIB

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.pi/, /ˈbip/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.pi/, /ˈbip/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbip/, /ˈbi.pi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbip/

• Hyphenation: bip

Noun

bip m (plural bips or bipes)

1. beep (short, electronically-produced sound)
2. pager

Further reading

• “bip”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

Anagrams

• PIB

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English beep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbip/
• Rhymes: -ip

Noun

bip n (plural bipuri)

1. beep
2. (telephony, colloquial) prearranged missed call
3. (television) bleep censor

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bip	bipul		bipuri	bipurile
genitive-dative	bip	bipului		bipuri	bipurilor
vocative	bipule			bipurilor

Derived terms

• bipăi

Further reading

• “bip”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Florica Dimitrescu-Niculescu (2013), “bip”, in Dicționar de cuvinte recente [Dictionary of recent words]‎, 3rd edition, Bucharest: Logos, →ISBN, page 97

Spanish

Noun

bip m (plural bips)

1. bip; beep

Turkish

Noun

bip (definite accusative bipi, plural bipler)

1. bleep

Declension

Declension of bip

singular plural nominative bip bipler definite accusative bipi bipleri dative bipe biplere locative bipte biplerde ablative bipten biplerden genitive bipin biplerin Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular bipim biplerim 2nd singular bipin biplerin 3rd singular bipi bipleri 1st plural bipimiz biplerimiz 2nd plural bipiniz bipleriniz 3rd plural bipleri bipleri definite accusative singular plural 1st singular bipimi biplerimi 2nd singular bipini biplerini 3rd singular bipini biplerini 1st plural bipimizi biplerimizi 2nd plural bipinizi biplerinizi 3rd plural biplerini biplerini dative singular plural 1st singular bipime biplerime 2nd singular bipine biplerine 3rd singular bipine biplerine 1st plural bipimize biplerimize 2nd plural bipinize biplerinize 3rd plural biplerine biplerine locative singular plural 1st singular bipimde biplerimde 2nd singular bipinde biplerinde 3rd singular bipinde biplerinde 1st plural bipimizde biplerimizde 2nd plural bipinizde biplerinizde 3rd plural biplerinde biplerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular bipimden biplerimden 2nd singular bipinden biplerinden 3rd singular bipinden biplerinden 1st plural bipimizden biplerimizden 2nd plural bipinizden biplerinizden 3rd plural biplerinden biplerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular bipimin biplerimin 2nd singular bipinin biplerinin 3rd singular bipinin biplerinin 1st plural bipimizin biplerimizin 2nd plural bipinizin biplerinizin 3rd plural biplerinin biplerinin