| 单词 |
pip-pip-pip |
| 释义 |
pip-pip-pip Teleph. [f. pip n.5] (The sound of) the three consecutive pips used as a time signal in the ‘speaking clock’ service and to indicate the lapse of time during a trunk call.
1936Discovery Oct. 315/2 Thus ‘At the third stroke’ is taken from one groove, ‘it will be’ from another, ‘eleven o'clock’ from another disc, and the sound ‘pip-pip-pip’ from a fourth. 1938D. Smith Dear Octopus i. 12 Don't go on talking after the pip pip pip, because they charge you at once. |

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