Meaning & use
Pippin
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A crisp variety of apple grown from seed, or informally, an excellent or admirable person or thing.
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She baked a pie using tart pippin apples from the orchard.
That new car of his is a real pippin.
A note on using this word
The apple sense traces to Middle English 'pipin,' a seedling apple; the slang sense meaning something excellent grew from the same idea of a choice specimen.
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2. noun
Informal: someone or something outstandingly good or attractive.
Their new puppy is a real pippin.
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