noun
- A crisp, tart apple variety, typically red or yellow, used for eating and cooking.
- Something or someone excellent or outstanding.
Usage: informal; dated
Examples
- She bit into a crisp pippin apple fresh from the orchard.
- The baker preferred pippins for her apple pies because of their tartness.
- A golden pippin was displayed at the farmers' market.
- In the old days, people called a remarkable person a real pippin.
- The recipe calls for two cups of diced pippins.