FIP
See also: fip
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɪp/
Noun
FIP (plural FIPs)
- (countable, Michigan, Northwest Indiana, derogatory) Acronym of fucking Illinois people; chiefly used by year-round inhabitants of tourist towns: a tourist to southwestern Michigan or northwestern Indiana lakeshore towns from the Chicago area; especially a wealthy such tourist.
- 1988, Hank De Zutter, Pamela Little De Zutter, “Invasion of the FIPs: boom time in southwestern Michigan”, in Chicago Reader:
- Some local teens have taken to calling the weekend tourists FIPs--short for "Fucking Illinois People." One can even buy a FIP T-shirt in, of all places, a New Buffalo clothing store owned by radio comedian Steve Dahl.
- (uncountable, veterinary medicine) Acronym of feline infectious peritonitis.
French
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