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Answer for the clue "A mark on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) ", 3 letters:
pip

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot ] hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot , hit ] defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" [syn: worst , mop up , whip , rack up ] [also: pipping , pipped ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"spot on a playing card, etc." c.1600, peep , of unknown origin. Because of the original form, it is not considered as connected to pip (n.1). Related: Pips .

Usage examples of pip.

Wagner, wearing the camouflage pattern coveralls and the pips of a captain of the Armee Nationale Congolaise, sat on the floor of the cabin, his back braced against the rear bulkhead.

Pip was mounting guard at the shed, and had undertaken to get Judy safely away, and Bunty had been stationed on the back veranda to keep cave and whistle three times if there was any danger.

And Bunty used to bring in the white mice and the blind French guinea-pig, and let them run loose over the counterpane, and Pip did most of his carpentering on a little table near, so she could see each fresh stage and suggest improvements as he went along.

Pip and Bunty and the two youngest girls running wild, and no one in authority?

Of himself, concerned for an unexpectedly cataleptic Pip, entering a dome identical to the one that now rose before him.

Larry, Daisy, Pip, Bets and Ern jumped too, and clutched in fright at one another, when the eerie wail echoed round them.

Behind him came Bets, then Larry, then Daisy, Ern and Pip being the last two.

Her eyes had a goggly look, and altogether she appeared considerably pipped.

The Cairhienin was pacing just behind the line until Mat appeared and swung down from Pips.

Topper and Pip are doing, maybe letting them out in the bottom pasture if Raff can spare it.

They would regain control of the weapon and, if they did not shoot him outright, reimprison him, doubtless in such a way that Pip could not free him as she had previously.

Judy and Pip could not hear, and was given a ruggy horse that had carried Mrs.

As the ship approached the balk line, sudden new tasks were discovered, squeezed from the vacuum like so many pips from an orange.

He walked slowly up the red road along which the dogcart had sped so blithesomely some six or seven hours ago, and Judy and Pip followed at a respectful--a very respectful--distance.

Mat hesitated a moment before booting Pips to follow, but Rhuarc and the Taardad sept chiefs, each with his ten, stepped off with the dapple.