subs. (gaming).—1. A spot on dice or playing cards.—BAILEY (1728). [A corruption of picks = (O.E.) ‘diamond’ and (sometimes) ‘spade’: from old Fr. picque = a spade.]
2. (old).—The pox: see FRENCH DISEASE: hence PIPPED = poxed.
1600. The Weakest goeth to the Wall, iii. 5.
| Lord, do not you pray that the PIPPE may catch the people, | |
| That you may earne many groats for making graues? |
1622. MASSINGER and DEKKER, The Virgin Martyr, ii. 1. Hir. Therein thou shewed’st thyself a perfect demi-christian too, to let the poor beg, starve, and hang, or die of the PIP.
1670. RAY, Proverbs [BOHN], 172. As much need of it as he has of the PIP, or a cough.
Verb. (club).—To blackball; TO PILL (q.v.).
1880. A. H. HUTH, The Life and Writings of H. T. Buckle, I. 252. If Buckle were PIPPED, they would do the same to every clergyman put up.
1892. T. A. GUTHRIE (‘F. Anstey’), Mr. Punch’s Model Music-Hall Songs & Dramas, 20.
| And what his little game is, he’ll let us perceive, | |
| And he’ll PIP the whole lot of ’em, so I believe. |
2. (gaming).—To take a trick from an opponent.
TO HAVE (or GET) THE PIP, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To be depressed, or out of sorts: see HUMP.
1886–96. MARSHALL, ‘Pomes’ from the Pink ’Un [‘The Luxury of Doing Good’], 41. It cost a bit to square up the attack; For the landlord HAD THE PIP.
