Sample Sentences & Example Usage. Maria Grazia Chiuri: It's not the famous postcard that you normally have of Rome, there's something more intimate, and that's the portrait we like. We also think couture is more intimate because there's a relationship between the client and the atelier. It's one of a kind and the best limited edition you could have.
pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped) 1  To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post. 2  To hit with a gunshot The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
From Middle English pipe, pype, from Old English pÄ«pe (âpipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small streamâ), from Vulgar Latin *pÄ«pa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare (âto peep; chirpâ). The verb is from Middle English pipen, pypen, from Old English pÄ«pian (âto pipeâ). (heading) Wind instrument.