Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fip

/fɪp/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English

Syllables: fip
IPA: /fɪp/

8

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

American usage; Obsolete

noun

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.

Countable; Derogatory

noun

Acronym of feline infectious peritonitis.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
""They're FIPs," he said. "They hold their noses up in the air.""

Etymology

Shortening.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /fɪp/

Usage

Inflected Forms

fips (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce fip?: The recorded pronunciation is /fɪp/.
What does fip mean?: fippenny bit
Where does fip come from?: Shortening.

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