Word.ws English Dictionary

chipper up

chipper up verb: to make or become more chipper; to cheer up.

Verb

chipper up (third-person singular simple present chippers up, present participle chippering up, simple past and past participle chippered up)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To make or become more chipper; to cheer up.

Forms of chipper up

third-person singular presentchippers up
present participlechippering up
past participlechippered up
pastchippered up

Questions about chipper up

What does chipper up mean?
Chipper up means to make or become more chipper; to cheer up.
What part of speech is chipper up?
Chipper up is a verb.
What is the past tense of chipper up?
The past tense of chipper up is chippered up.

Words near chipper up in the dictionary

  1. Chippendale
  2. Chippendalism
  3. Chippenham
  4. Chippenham Without
  5. chipper
  6. chipper up
  7. chippered
  8. chippered up
  9. chipperer
  10. chipperest
  11. Chipperfield

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chipper up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chipper up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chipper_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.