pip pip pip

A form of pip-pip-pip — Imitating the sounds of the British speaking clock.

Meanings

interjection
  1. alternativeAlternative form of pip-pip-pip.

    And the Silver Secretary would say, very sweetly: ‘'pip pip pip at the third stroke he will be in conference pip pip pip he is now in conference[…]’

    1937, Alan Patrick Herbert, Sip! Swallow!, London: Methuen and Company, page 13
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