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squipper

UK/ˈskwɪpə/

squipper noun: a survival equipment fitter.

Noun

squipper (plural squippers)

  1. (UK, slang) A survival equipment fitter.
    • A third significant omission is due to the fact that large numbers of Chinook, Puma and Hercules aircrews [...] together with all the 'loadies', 'sooties', 'squippers' and ground crews that support them, continue, at the time of writing, to be heavily involved in Operation Safe Haven along the...1991, Charles Allen, Thunder & Lightning: The RAF in the Gulf : Personal Experiences of War, Stationery Office/Tso
    • After stripping off all my other kit, I held my rubber- gloved hands behind me, the last bits still in the dirty zone, and the squipper peeled the gloves off.1995, John Peters, John Nichol, Neil Hanson, Team Tornado: Life on a Front-Line Squadron, →ISBN

Forms of squipper

pluralsquippers

Origin of squipper

Blend of survival + equipment + fitter.

Words that rhyme with squipper

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Questions about squipper

What does squipper mean?
Squipper means a survival equipment fitter.
What part of speech is squipper?
Squipper is a noun.
How do you pronounce squipper?
Squipper is pronounced /ˈskwɪpə/ (UK).
What is the plural of squipper?
The plural of squipper is squippers.

Words near squipper in the dictionary

  1. squiny
  2. squinying
  3. squinzey
  4. squinzeys
  5. squinzy
  6. squipper
  7. squippers
  8. squir
  9. squirage
  10. squiralties
  11. squiralty

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