bip

Clipping of English Bila with p as a placeholder.

bip

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bila terms

Imitative.

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.

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^[1]:

     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.

• BPI, PBI, PIB, PiB, pib

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

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

• IPA^(key): /biːp/

bip 

1. duck

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bip m (plural bips)

1. beep (short, electronically-produced sound)

• biper

• PIB

• Hyphenation: bip

bip m (plural bips or bipes)

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

• PIB

Borrowed from English beep.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbip/
• Rhymes: -ip

bip n (plural bipuri)

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

• bipăi

• “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]‎^[2], 3rd edition, Bucharest: Logos, →ISBN, page 97

bip m (plural bips)

1. bip; beep

bip (definite accusative bipi, plural bipler)

1. bleep