The following excerpt has been taken from the poem Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka. What does 'pipped' mean here?
Voice, when it came,
Lipstick coated, long gold-rolled
Cigarette-holder pipped.
Caught I was, foully.
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"Pipped", I think, is used with poetic license, here. My initial inclination is that it is describing the affectation of 'the voice' that is caused by the clenched teeth and lips required to keep the cigarette holder from dropping out of the mouth while speaking. An exaggerated aspiration of the [P] sound is quite inevitable. Google "The Penguin" from the "Batman" TV series to get a better idea of what I'm trying to describe.