pipping

v. (Slang) win, be victorious; defeat, beat; fail, be unsuccessful; cause failure, make unsuccessful

An egg tooth is a small protuberance on the beak or nose of vertebrates that are hatched from eggs, i.e., birds and reptiles. Some lizards and snakes develop a true tooth that is shed after use; birds and other reptiles generally develop an analogous epidermal horn that is reabsorbed or falls off. Both varieties of egg tooth assist in the breaking or tearing of the eggshell, a process known as pipping.
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(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Pip
  

<tool> Peripheral Interchange Program.
A program on CP/M, RSX-11, RSTS/E, TOPS-10, and OS/8 (derived from a utility on the PDP-6) that was used for file copying (and in OS/8 and RT-11 for just about every other file operation you might want to do). It is said that when the program was written, during the development of the PDP-6 in 1963, it was called ATLATL ("Anything, Lord, to Anything, Lord"; this played on the Nahuatl word "atlatl" for a spear-thrower, with connotations of utility and primitivity that were no doubt quite intentional).
See also BLT, dd, cat.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-28)

Noun
1. a disease of poultry
(hypernym) animal disease
2. a minor nonspecific ailment
(hypernym) ailment, complaint, ill
3. a small hard seed found in some fruits
(hypernym) seed
4. a mark on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
(synonym) spot
(hypernym) marker, marking, mark
(part-holonym) playing card
5. a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
(synonym) blip, radar target
(hypernym) radar echo
Verb
1. kill by firing a missile
(synonym) shoot
(hypernym) kill
(hyponym) flight
(verb-group) shoot, hit
2. hit with a missile from a weapon
(synonym) shoot, hit
(hypernym) injure, wound
(hyponym) gun down
(verb-group) shoot
3. defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"
(synonym) worst, mop up, whip, rack up
(hypernym) beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish