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chipper

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A chipper is an occasional drug user who does not use drugs with the regularity or frequency that is typical of addicts . It is used particularly to refer to opiate users and tobacco smokers. It can also refer to people who use various recreational drugs, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ You're looking very chipper this morning, Deborah. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Felt pretty chipper , as we scraped together enough coins to buy a shared polystyrene cup of milky tea. ▪ He spoke in a chipper tone, trying ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chipper \Chip"per\, a. Lively; cheerful; talkative. [U. S.]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful. n. 1 (context British Ireland slang English) A fish and chips shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods. 2 (context slang English) ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1834, "lively, nimble," American English, from northern British dialectal kipper "nimble, frisky," the origin of which is obscure.

Usage examples of chipper.

But yesterday the real estate lady had been in two or three times with clients, and seemed in her horrifyingly chipper way to think that she had a few serious buyers already.

Our company was just an insignificant item in the global economy, but we had located two chippers who were willing to work for us.

Several companies found that out, to their great cost, when chippers first came into use.

It is necessary for business purposes for chippers to hide their powers so that the pokerface is a professional necessity for them.

An unregulated chipper could influence other people emotions, you know, if they were chipped just right and had talent.

I had a strong urge to try to win the woman for myself but it was not likely that anyone who had a chipper would transfer herself to a mere junior executive, which is what I was in those days.

To transfer herself to another chipper would be something else--and I could see that C-12 was as affected as I was.

She saw Ryan standing at the foot of the bed, fully dressed, grinning and looking chipper, as though he'd been up for hours.

Chipper Dove was blondly handsome, in a spotless, slightly pretty sort of way.

There is nothing more demoralizing to a disestablishmentarian like myself than having to sit and listen to your sister’s chipper voice reading off the morning announcements in homeroom during Spirit Week.

The driver was one Edward Beaverton, and he seemed awfully chipper for a man who had to work before 7:00 A.

He was feeling chipper and reported that his cardiac monitor had been beeping as regularly as a metronome without the slightest suggestion of irregularity.

He summoned the most mobile creatures of the caverns: the large chippers, flying chimeras, small salamanders, and others.

Chipper received the telephone call a few minutes after the day's mail brought him a check, drawn by an Althea Burnside on a bank in De Pere, for Charles Burnside's maintenance at his facility.

She has never been anywhere more exotic than Atlantic City, where Chipper used his frequent-flier miles to escort her for five enchanted days two years before.