Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

squeeze the pips

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

Syllables: squeeze the pips
IPA

39

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To wring all available resources out of something.

Example Sentences

"[…] he had not been able to grab and squeeze the pips of the rich, so to speak, and catch and use their juice for his own."
"The Empire disintegrated as the money holding it together ran out. Except the really poor bits who wanted to squeeze the pips to get a cash injection from the 'Mother Country' by screaming 'Imperialism' at the politicians that had been given a politically correct indoctrination (sorry, education)."

Inflected Forms

squeezes the pips (present, singular) squeezing the pips (participle, present) squeezed the pips (participle, past) squeezed the pips (past)

Questions

What does squeeze the pips mean?: To wring all available resources out of something.

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