"chilip" meaning in English

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          "text": "Tshomo, a young herdswoman from Laya who lives with her herd of yaks on a lonely mountain pasture, hears his cries, saves the chilip, and soon takes him under her wing in every sense of the word.",
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          "text": "There are accounts of curious villagers, unaccustomed to seeing those who come from faraway lands, turning up at the door “to have a look at the chilip.” This term for a Westerner is at once affectionate but slightly disparaging.",
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          "text": "Back in Thimphu I had heard about a (male) Fulbrighter being undressed down to his underwear in a parking lot. “The ritual undressing of the chilip,” a friend had called it, chilip (“grey hair”) being the local word for foreigners.",
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