Given to picking fights

Usage examples of chippy.

Dozo Doyle goes, eatin ehs fish n clockin a couple ay boys that went intae the chippy.

Dozo and Brian Doyle at the chippy at the Cross, then doon tae the Longstone tae meet Gentleman and that Polmont boy.

THE STORY: There are people who might consider Chippy Wager unethical and others who go a great deal further.

They pay those lads plenty, but Chippy had usesfor money, mainly liquid, and he made another income on the side by taking photographs privately of practically everything from the Mayor and Corporation to the local beauty queen.

From my own purely personal point of view the thing was becoming a nightmare, and the principal reason for that was Chippy Wager.

By the time the murderer had got round to St Piers, Chippy was most anxious that the homicidal nut should be apprehended and the case finished.

I managed to avoid Chippy going down, but I saw his back disappearing into the Railway Tavern as I picked up a taxi at the station.

Someone had asked if Chippy had gone since he had not seen him lately, while somebody else observed that he too had noticed a singular freshness in the atmosphere.

From that moment I hunted Chippy as he had never hunted me, and it was not too easy an undertaking, since, as I have said, the place was stiff with pressmen and I was more than anxious not to raise any general hue and cry.

I could feel Chippy trying to shake me off, and after a while I realised that he was going somewhere in particular, heading somewhere definitely if obliquely, like a wasp to its nest.

He was still beaming, but the vacancy of his broad face intensified, if one can say such a thing, and I knew he must have ceased to hear anything Chippy was telling him long ago.

He rattled the money I gave him in the till and waddled off again, after nodding to Chippy in a secret important way I entirely misunderstood.

I could see by the way Chippy took the parcel that it was important, but he was so casual, or so drunk, that he almost dropped it, and did scatter some of the coins that he gave the boy.

As soon as the kid had gone, Chippy tore the paper off the roll and I could see it consisted of four or five huge blown-up photographic prints, but he did not open them out, contenting himself with little squints at each corner, and I could see nothing.

I yelled at Chippy and started after him, pausing on the threshold to glance back.