bip meaning (informal): definition, etymology and quotations

bip

verb

Etymology Imitative.

Informal To make or cause to make a short beeping or blipping sound.

Jihad Merhi bipped the horn as he pulled up in his Land Cruiser outside chez Lattouf.2011, David Cullen, The Byblos Discovery, page 275:

Informal To hit lightly.

After the entire table burst into laughter, she playfully bipped the man in the mouth and followed it with a kiss.A. P. Vasko, 33 Miracles (page 188)
I swung the bat, barely bipped the ball, and sent it spinning off into a neighbor's yard. That was the closest I'd come to hitting that thing all day.2003, C. D. Blizzard, Broken:

California, Slang To break into a car and steal its contents.

California, Broadly, Slang To rob; steal.

So many cars get bipped on that street.
Around Christmas of that year me and a friend was going to go up through Oklahoma bipping — scallybipping [burglarizing a house when they saw the wife out back hanging clothes], you know. We had been doing it around Houston, Dallas, places like that, but now we was going to go up through the States.1972, Bruce Jackson, In the Life: Versions of the Criminal Experience, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, I.L.; San Francisco, C.A.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 82:

noun

Etymology Imitative.

California, Slang Synonym of spliff.

My niggas getting greasy with them licks, nigga But these free banks, I ain’t use no bip, nigga2020 October 10, “Toot That Sh!t Up”, Kai Bandz (lyrics), 1:34:
You have your bip on you? 'Cause if you ain't got no bip on you, I ain't hangin' out with you2022 March 11, “B$G Intro” (track 1, right in the beginning), in Baby Stone Gorillas (lyrics), BABYST5XNE GORILLAS:

Business, Finance Abbreviation Abbreviation of basis point.

Slang Can refer to multiple different things, but usually refers to a piece that someone owns, most often a gun or a haircut.

African-American Vernacular; Baltimore; African-American Vernacular; Baltimore