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chippying

chippying is the present participle and gerund of chippy.

Meaning of chippy

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.
    • I chippy around but haven't been hooked in a year now.1952 March 5, William S. Burroughs, “To Allen Ginsberg”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, published 1993, →ISBN, page 104

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Questions about chippying

What is chippying the present participle and gerund of?
Chippying is the present participle and gerund of chippy.

Words near chippying in the dictionary

  1. chippy chaser
  2. chippy chasers
  3. chippy sauce
  4. chippy-chaser
  5. chippy-chasers
  6. chippying
  7. chiprate
  8. chipre
  9. chipres
  10. chips
  11. chips and charges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chippying (page history and authors); chippy (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.

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