"chippy" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɪpi/ Audio: EN-AU ck1 chippy.ogg [Australia] Forms: chippier [comparative], chippiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪpi Etymology: From chip + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|chip|y}} chip + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} chippy (comparative chippier, superlative chippiest)
  1. (Canada, UK) Ill-tempered, disagreeable. Tags: Canada, UK
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-adj-5A0kcSf- Categories (other): British English, Canadian English
  2. (Canada, sports) Involving violence or unfair play. Tags: Canada Categories (topical): Sports
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-adj-T0L9GoNv Categories (other): Canadian English Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  3. (of wood) Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood. Tags: of wood
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-adj-UiylAV68
  4. (dated) As dry as a chip of wood. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-adj-QFLUMZac
  5. (archaic) Feeling sick from drinking alcohol; hung over. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-adj-URCSYJqW
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: chippie Related terms: chippily

Noun

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɪpi/ Audio: EN-AU ck1 chippy.ogg [Australia] Forms: chippies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪpi Etymology: From chip + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|chip|y}} chip + -y Head templates: {{en-noun}} chippy (plural chippies)
  1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) A carpenter. Tags: Australia, Britain, Ireland, New-Zealand, slang
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-noun-zfIBVtcr Categories (other): Australian English, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English
  2. (slang, Western US) A prostitute or promiscuous woman. Tags: US, Western, slang
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-noun-SrSNr2tU Categories (other): Western US English
  3. (Britain, Ireland, informal) A fish-and-chip shop. Tags: Britain, Ireland, informal Synonyms: chipper
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-noun-0YLmK99V Categories (other): British English, Irish English
  4. (Australia, slang) The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk. Tags: Australia, slang
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-noun-Zol4YWH- Categories (other): Australian English
  5. (New Zealand) A potato chip. Tags: New-Zealand
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-noun-4Yb3FDA~ Categories (other): New Zealand English
  6. (demoscene, informal) A chiptune. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Demoscene
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-noun-JSA3-VdA Topics: computing, demoscene, engineering, lifestyle, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  7. (US) A chipping sparrow. Tags: US
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-noun-A~BMQ094 Categories (other): American English
  8. (slang) An occasional drug habit, less than addiction. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-noun-6iem7hdI
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: chippie Derived forms: chippy-chaser, chippy joint, chippy sauce, chippy tea

Verb

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɪpi/ Audio: EN-AU ck1 chippy.ogg [Australia] Forms: chippies [present, singular, third-person], chippying [participle, present], chippied [participle, past], chippied [past]
Rhymes: -ɪpi Etymology: From chip + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|chip|y}} chip + -y Head templates: {{en-verb}} chippy (third-person singular simple present chippies, present participle chippying, simple past and past participle chippied)
  1. (slang) To take drugs (especially heroin) on an occasional basis, rather than as an addict. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-chippy-en-verb-N9qZb7sX
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: chippie

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "British English",
        "English slang",
        "Irish English",
        "New Zealand English"
      ],
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        "A carpenter."
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        [
          "carpenter",
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        "(Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) A carpenter."
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        "Britain",
        "Ireland",
        "New-Zealand",
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    },
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      "categories": [
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Robert Altman, Brian McKay, 00:17:46 from the start, in McCabe & Mrs. Miller",
          "text": "$80 for a chippy? I can get a goddamn horse for $50!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, William Lashner, chapter I, in Fatal Flaw, page 280",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Nicholas L. Syrett, chapter C, in The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities, page 176",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "March 19, 2012, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker",
          "text": "When Victor Laszlo leads the demoralized French in the “Marseilles,” and even Yvonne, the chippy who is sleeping with a Nazi officer, joins in, the stoniest intellectual collapses in tears.",
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        }
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        "A prostitute or promiscuous woman."
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        "US",
        "Western",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Patrick Naughton, chapter I, in Whistle Wood, Land of the Fathers, page 33",
          "text": "Huge queues form outside the Chippy, often stretching back to the Coop and beyond.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, John Wise, chapter 12, in Sweet Dreams, page 308",
          "text": "Albert was flabbergasted. Yer really buyin′ a chippy?” Tom smiled whilst nodding his head. “That′s me plan.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fish-and-chip shop."
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        ]
      ],
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        "(Britain, Ireland, informal) A fish-and-chip shop."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "chipper"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "Britain",
        "Ireland",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk."
      ],
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        "(Australia, slang) The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "New Zealand English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A potato chip."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(New Zealand) A potato chip."
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      "tags": [
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "en:Demoscene"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A chiptune."
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        ]
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        "(demoscene, informal) A chiptune."
      ],
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        "informal"
      ],
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        "computing",
        "demoscene",
        "engineering",
        "lifestyle",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1902, Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock, The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire magazine devoted to history, biography, literature, and state progress, volume 32, page 385",
          "text": "In due time a nest-full of little chippies appear to be nourished with insectiverous food from a parental beak until fledged and able to look after themselves.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, Alice Lounsberry, chapter I, in The Garden Book for Young People, page 139",
          "text": "Surely no young chippy was ever so stout and so emphatic as this bird.\nThe funny part of it all is that the starling appears to make the chippies do whatever it pleases.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 88",
          "text": "How early in the season does the chippy appear and where does it spend the winter?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      ],
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        "(US) A chipping sparrow."
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      "tags": [
        "US"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang"
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      "glosses": [
        "An occasional drug habit, less than addiction."
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          "habit",
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        ],
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        "(slang) An occasional drug habit, less than addiction."
      ],
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        "slang"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃɪpi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪpi"
    },
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          "ref": "1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, act I",
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        "(Canada, UK) Ill-tempered, disagreeable."
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          "text": "2007, Canadian Interuniversity Sport, cisport.ca,\nThe University of Lethbridge Pronghorns and University of Saskatchewan Huskies battled to a 1-1 draw in a chippy Canada West men’s soccer affair that saw the teams combine for 33 fouls and five yellow cards."
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        "Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood."
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        "(of wood) Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood."
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        "English dated terms"
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        "As dry as a chip of wood."
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        "(dated) As dry as a chip of wood."
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses"
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      "glosses": [
        "Feeling sick from drinking alcohol; hung over."
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        "(archaic) Feeling sick from drinking alcohol; hung over."
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      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃɪpi/"
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        "present",
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        {
          "ref": "1974, Eric Josephson, Eleanor Elizabeth Carroll, Columbia University. School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine, Drug use: epidemiological and sociological approaches (page 110)",
          "text": "The heroin user in the United States typically \"chippies\" for some time before becoming a regular user."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Erich Goode, Marijuana, page 86",
          "text": "For the most part, the players who are \"chippying\" with heroin think that they have their heroin use under control […]",
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        }
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        "To take drugs (especially heroin) on an occasional basis, rather than as an addict."
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        "(slang) To take drugs (especially heroin) on an occasional basis, rather than as an addict."
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        "slang"
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    {
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