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English
Etymology 1
From PIP + -er.
Noun
pipper (plural pippers)
- (military, slang) A marker indicating the PIP (predicted impact point) on a head-up display.
Etymology 2
From pip + -er.
Noun
pipper (plural pippers)
- (military, slang, in combination) A person wearing the specific number of stars on the shoulder of their uniform, implying a particular rank.
1918, The Tatler, volume 67, page 306:Our caricaturist, Lieutenant Fred May, has this week specialised in “three pippers,” as all of the officers in the above collection, have attained to captain's rank, and have all, so we understand, been “through it" […]
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Etymology
From Middle English piper, from Old English pipor, from Latin piper.
Pronunciation
Noun
pipper
- pepper
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 62