FIP

See also: fip

English

Pronunciation

Noun

FIP (plural FIPs)

  1. (countable, Michigan, Northwest Indiana, derogatory) Acronym of fucking Illinois people, chiefly used by year-round inhabitants of tourist towns: a tourist (especially when wealthy) to southwestern Michigan or northwestern Indiana lakeshore towns from the Chicago area.
    • 1988, Hank De Zutter, Pamela Little De Zutter, “Invasion of the FIPs: boom time in southwestern Michigan”, in Chicago Reader‎[1]:
      Some local teens have taken to calling the weekend tourists FIPs--short for "Fucking Illinois People." One can even buy a FIP T-shirt in, of all places, a New Buffalo clothing store owned by radio comedian Steve Dahl.
    • 1992, Peter Kendall, “Michigan Residents Resist Letting Their Beach Towns Become Illinois”, in Chicago Tribune‎[2]:
      "They're FIPs," he said. "They hold their noses up in the air."
  2. (uncountable, veterinary medicine) Acronym of feline infectious peritonitis.

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French

Proper noun

FIP ?

  1. initialism of Fédération Internationale de Philatélie

Indonesian

Noun

FIP

  1. (education) initialism of fakultas ilmu pendidikan
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