<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>one of the spots on dice, playing cards, or dominoes: You need to match the two pips on this domino with two pips on one of your dominoes.</li><li>each of the small segments into which the surface of a pineapple is divided: Cut off the top of the pineapple, slicing through the first row of pips.</li><li>Informal: metal insignia of rank on the shoulders of commissioned officers: the museum's collection of German pips and buttons.</li><li>Horticulture: an individual rootstock of a plant, especially of the lily of the valley: This low-growing perennial forms dense clumps from its slender pips.</li><li>a portion of the rootstock or root of several other plants: The peony's pips are those budlike growths at the top of the tuber.</li></ul>