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The absolute pip?
I'm currently reading <I>Thank You, Jeeves</I> by P.G. Wodehouse, and recently came across the following quote:
"Odd, how a girl may be a perfect knockout, and yet one can still feel that to be married to her would give one the absolute pip."
I like this quote a lot, and gather "pip" has a negative connotation, yet I am not British and have never seen or heard the word used before.
What exactly does "pip" mean, and is there a similiar word or phrase used in American English that would be more familiar to those of us that aren't British?
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