bip

present singular third person bips · participle present bipping · participle past bipped · past bipped

1. informalTo 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. informaltransitiveTo hit lightly.

   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)

   1 more example

   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

   Synonyms: bop, boop

3. CaliforniaslangBay AreaTo break into a car and steal its contents.
   1. CaliforniabroadlyslangBay AreaTo rob; steal.

      So many cars get bipped on that street.

      1 more example

      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

plural bips

1. CaliforniaslangBay AreaSynonym of spliff.

   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

   1 more example

   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

   Synonyms: spliff

2. abbreviationbusinessAbbreviation of basis point.
3. slangAfrican-American Vernacular; Baltimore; African-American Vernacular; BaltimoreCan refer to multiple different things, but usually refers to a piece that someone owns, most often a gun or a haircut.

plural BIPs

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of blunt impact projectile.

1. BotswanaabbreviationhistoricalinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Botswana Independence Party.