“I watched her pop a plump cherry into her mouth before spitting out its pip.”
“A small white pip appears on the video screen and indicates the land position of the mobile unit.”
“On a more cheerful note, your new house is an absolute pip.”
pip
One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment if he is to continue his call.