pip pip pip

English

Interjection

pip pip pip

1. Imitative of the sounds of the British speaking clock.
   • 1937, Alan Patrick Herbert, Sip! Swallow!, London: Methuen and Company, page 13:

     And the Silver Secretary would say very sweetly: 'PIP PIP PIP AT THE THRID STROKE HE WILL BE IN CONFERENCE PIP PIP PIP HE IS NOW IN CONFERENCE