释义 |
chippy; chippie noun- a fish-and-chip shop UK, 1961
- "I think there are very real questions about what the role of head teachers will be. From November 1, do we really have to lose every lunchtime to supervise the chippie down the road?” — Guardian, 29 July 1986
- [A]t the bus stop by the chippie[.] — Patrick Jones, Unprotected Sex, p. 210, 1999
- We’ve got our chippies, the hot-dog van, a Chinese takeaway, an Indian. — John King, Human Punk, p. 79, 2000
- To the chippy for a portion, saveloy, gherkin, in salt and vinegar. — Mark Powell, Snap, p. 28, 2001
- a person who uses addictive drugs occasionally without developing a habit US, 1924
- She’s no chippie, man. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 29, 1960
- a modest drug addiction US, 1964
- At the moment, like Sammy, he had only a chippy, and got most of the heroin he needed by hanging around other addicts who occassionally turned him on with a taste[.] — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 35, 1966
- a young woman, usually of loose morals, at times a semiprofessional prostitute US, 1886
- That was some other quick-trick chippy. — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 143, 1951
- I deserve it for acting like a two dollar chippie! — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 134, 1952
- [W]hy would I fool around with some chippy when I had you? — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 61, 1952
- A guilty furtiveness in the gray eyes. The cast of weakness across the mouth, with its sullten swollen lips. The look of the chippy. — John D. McDonald, The Neon Jungle, p. 26, 1953
- He played the pads on Saturday night and jumped with the chippies till broad daylight. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 22, 1959
- Also, he had gotten into the habit of falling in love with teen-age girls, like this Chippy on the Strip, for whom he had just bought a new cloth coat. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 3, 1961
- A nice-looking chippy, drunk as hell, staggered toward me and tried to put her arms around me[.] — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 232, 1967
- This is what my father used to call “a chippy.” Of course! And can I bring home a chippy, Doctor? — Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, p. 226, 1969
- “We had a few drinks aftewards.” “We? You and some chippie from Ruffles?” — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 36, 1978
- Pretty Melvin, the fickle humper, the dapper campus god, cruising with Reba plastered against him in his low-riding purple chippie-catcher. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Doom Fox, p. 3, 1978
- a carpenter UK, 1916
Also in the reduced form “chips.” - — Oswald Skilbeck, ABC of Film and TV Working Terms, p. 28, 1960
- But scores of workers–including dockies, wharfies and chippies–regard the Pacific Hotel in Stephen St as a second home. — Glebe and Western Weekly, p. 2, 8 November 1989
- In the heart of Glasgow, a group of women are becoming brickies and chippies, and making that dream come true. — Guardian, 2 August 1999
- cocaine UK, 1998
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 280, 2003
- marijuana UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 287, 2003
- a person in a gambling casino who tries to hustle or steal chips US
- — Victor H. Royer, Casino Gamble Talk, p. 32, 2003
- an inexperienced gambler US
- — Steve Kuriscak, Casino Talk, p. 12, 1985
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