pip emma n.
p.m.; in ext. use, the evening.
![]() | ‘New Church’ Times 22 May (2006) /2: I shall dine / At 8.15 pip emma. | |
![]() | Carrying On 135: He [i.e. the signaller] salutes the rosy dawn as ‘Ak Emma,’ and eventide as ‘Pip Emma.’. | |
![]() | Weekly Journal Miner (Prescott, AZ) 5 July 3/1: At one pip emma came the picturesque parade of polite punchers. |