A pippin
modifier
: a pipperoo flick
noun phrase
a person or thing that is remarkable, wonderful, superior, etc; beaut, humdinger: his wildest dreams have to be pips ( first form 1912+, second 1942+, third 1897+)
[fr pippin, a prized kind of apple; the shift was probably fr peach as one kind of excellent fruit to pippin as another]
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