Chippy

/ˈt͡ʃɪpi/ · noun

Meaning

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A carpenter..

Definitions by Sense

1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A carpenter.
2. (slang, Western US) A prostitute or promiscuous woman.
3. (UK, Ireland, informal) A fish-and-chip shop.
4. (Australia, slang) The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk.
5. (New Zealand or colloquial) A potato chip.
6. (demoscene, informal) A chiptune.
7. (US) A chipping sparrow.
8. (slang) An occasional drug habit, less than addiction.

Example Sentences

Then, when ah wis apprenticed as a chippy wi a Gorgie builder, ah goes along tae Telford College tae dae ma national certificate modules in joinery.

I manage to pick up a living in spite of the damn chippies. I don't see why the hell they don't go into the business regular and make something out of it, instead of loving free.

Don't worry chippy, nobodys gonna hurtya. Maybe fuckya a little[…]

$80 for a chippy? I can get a goddamn horse for $50!

I give the pictures of the wife and the lawn boy to the husband. I give the pictures of the husband and the chippy to the wife.

Canby hints that, even with chippies, sexual intercourse was rare; even putting aside his complete lack of regard for the chippy as an actual human being, however, this passage makes clear that whatever did occur with these chippies may not have been as consensual as he presumed.⁷²

When Victor Laszlo leads the demoralized French in the “Marseilles^([sic – meaning Marseillaise]),” and even Yvonne, the chippy who is sleeping with a Nazi officer, joins in, the stoniest intellectual collapses in tears.

Huge queues form outside the Chippy, often stretching back to the Coop and beyond.

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Word Forms

• chippies
• chippie
• chippier
• chippiest
• chippying
• chippied

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