Chipper

/ˈt͡ʃɪpɚ/ · adjective

Meaning

Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful..

Definitions by Sense

1. Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.
2. Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood).
3. (Ireland, North East Scotland, slang) A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.
4. A company that manufactures potato chips/potato crisps.
5. (sports) A player who chips the ball.
6. (golf) A golf club for making chip shots.
7. (slang) A deep frier.
8. (US, smoking) An occasional tobacco user, or more generally drug user.

Example Sentences

Van Halen orders garlic strewn about Lucy's bedroom. she feels a bit chipperer the next morning, so Mina heads off to help poor Harker in Budapest.

The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.

"Sure, but she's not saying." Imrich kicked his feet up on the coffee table, dislodging a pile of research papers — hers, of course — onto the floor. She tried not to twitch. Laiken twitched a lot, and it was irritating. "Personally I think she has the magical ability to not notice she's working for an arguably evil worldwide truth suppression conspiracy. Nobody at the SCP Foundation ought to be that goddamn chipper."

Used for chopping large blocks of chocolate into small pieces, a chocolate chipper looks like a large fork with six thin, very sharp, pointed metal fingers. To use the chipper, hold it straight up and down and press it firmly[…]

'Yes, and CCTV on the drink link and at Fabio's chipper.'

Bichel asked chippers several thought-provoking questions about potato procurement, storage and handling.

Pet Inc.'s Laura Scudder division, a West Coast region chipper, has revamped its Dittos brand stack chips.

[a squirrel] […] eyeing me inquisitively, chippering, and shaking his tail

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Word Forms

• chipperer
• chipperest
• chippers
• chippering
• chippered

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