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FIP en · NOUN
Pronunciation
/fɪp/ (General-American)
Meanings
(abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, derogatory, qualifier:Michigan; Northwest Indiana; Michigan; Northwest Indiana) 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.
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. 1988, Hank De Zutter, Pamela Little De Zutter, “Invasion of the FIPs: boom time in southwestern Michigan”, in Chicago Reader:
"They're FIPs," he said. "They hold their noses up in the air." 1992, Peter Kendall, “Michigan Residents Resist Letting Their Beach Towns Become Illinois”, in Chicago Tribune:
(abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable) Acronym of feline infectious peritonitis.