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bip en · NOUN

Etymology

Imitative.

Meanings

  1. (California, qualifier:Bay Area, slang) Synonym of spliff.
    • My niggas getting greasy with them licks, nigga But these free banks, I ain’t use no bip, nigga 2020 October 10, “Toot That Sh!t Up”, Kai Bandz (lyrics), 1:34:
    • You have your bip on you? 'Cause if you ain't got no bip on you, I ain't hangin' out with you 2022 March 11, “B$G Intro” (track 1, right in the beginning), in Baby Stone Gorillas (lyrics), BABYST5XNE GORILLAS:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of basis point.
  3. (qualifier:African-American Vernacular; Baltimore; 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.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bips Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

spliff

Source: en.wiktionary, “bip” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

bip en · VERB

Etymology

Imitative.

Meanings

  1. (informal) To make or cause to make a short beeping or blipping sound.
    • Jihad Merhi bipped the horn as he pulled up in his Land Cruiser outside chez Lattouf. 2011, David Cullen, The Byblos Discovery, page 275:
  2. (informal, transitive) To hit lightly.
    • 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. 2003, C. D. Blizzard, Broken:
    • After the entire table burst into laughter, she playfully bipped the man in the mouth and followed it with a kiss. A. P. Vasko, 33 Miracles (page 188)
  3. (California, qualifier:Bay Area, slang) To break into a car and steal its contents.
  4. (California, broadly, qualifier:Bay Area, slang) To break into a car and steal its contents. ▸ To rob; steal.
    • So many cars get bipped on that street.
    • Around Christmas of that year me and a friend was going to go up through Oklahoma bipping — scallybipping [burglarizing a house when they saw the wife out back hanging clothes], you know. We had been doing it around Houston, Dallas, places like that, but now we was going to go up through the States. 1972, Bruce Jackson, In the Life: Versions of the Criminal Experience, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, I.L.; San Francisco, C.A.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 82:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bipping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bipped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bipped Tense=Past lexicographic
bips Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

boop · bop

Translations (3)

gl chincar (to hit lightly) · gl chiscar (to hit lightly) · es golpetear (to hit lightly)