What does gippo mean?
Gippo means (British, offensive, slang) A Gypsy..
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/ˈd͡ʒɪpəʊ/ · noun
(British, offensive, slang) A Gypsy..
Every foreigner in Cairo’s piling into the trains[.] The gyppo porters are having a high old time at the station.
He had his “dinner” in his canteen and placed it on the ground to go and “scrounge” a chunk of bread to help “fill up”, and as soon as he turned his back a dog walked in at the door of the barn, where we were “in residence” as they say “higher up”, [only we “flew no flag”], and started lapping up some of the “gippo”, [gravy] of which the said dinner was composed [in fact 'twas more “gippo” than dinner that day, so who could blame a dog for being mistaken].
They were always asking for ‘more gippo’ (gravy) which we got for them if we could.
But even where the company does its own logging, the size of the timber enables it to use a modified form of the contract system, somewhat analogous to the sweatshop system in other industries and sinisterly named by the I.W.W., the "gyppo" system.
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Gippo means (British, offensive, slang) A Gypsy..
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Every foreigner in Cairo’s piling into the trains[.] The gyppo porters are having a high old time at the station.
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