chippies

Noun

chippy (plural chippies)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) A carpenter.
   • Then, when ah wis apprenticed as a chippy wi a Gorgie builder, ah goes along tae Telford College tae dae ma national certificate modules in joinery.1993, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Times Film School, page 36
2. (US, Western, slang) A prostitute or promiscuous woman.
   • 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.a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
3. (Ireland, UK, informal) A fish-and-chip shop.
   • Huge queues form outside the Chippy, often stretching back to the Coop and beyond.2008, Patrick Naughton, chapter I, in Whistle Wood, Land of the Fathers, →ISBN, page 33

   Synonyms:

   chipper

4. (Australia, slang) The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk.
5. (New Zealand, colloquial) A potato chip.
   • why fish? for food so we can have it in our chippies2001 February 17, Ben Scott, “fish”, in free.uk.internet.isp.blueyonder.poor-service (Usenet), archived from the original on 15 Apr 2026
6. (informal) A chiptune.

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