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chappie

n. (alternative spelling of chappy English)

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Chappie (film)

Chappie (stylized as CHAPPiE) is a 2015 American science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp and written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. It stars Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Sigourney Weaver, Hugh Jackman, and Watkin Tudor Jones (Ninja) and Yolandi Visser of the South African zef rap-rave group Die Antwoord. The film, set and shot in Johannesburg, is about an artificially intelligent law enforcement robot captured and taught by gangsters, who nickname it Chappie.

Chappie was produced and distributed by US-based companies and is classified as an American film. It premiered in New York City on March 4, 2015, and was released in U.S. cinemas on March 6, 2015. The film grossed $102 million worldwide against a $49 million budget. At the review aggregators, Rotten Tomatoes rated it 31%, and Metacritic rated it 41/100.

Usage examples of "chappie".

Fashion just now to make a lot of fuss over Australian chappies, whatever they do.

He is a strong chappie all right, a little heap of misery yesterday and full of beans today according to the guards.

Probably the chappie thought he was some kind of a confidence johnnie or something.

The chappie in question, having heard his name called out, good-naturedly rose and ambled over, with the air of one who confers a great favor out of pure affection.

Later she married this Shaw chappie and went to live on some grotty little island in the western ocean.

The chappie who sold me this system said it had never had more than three losers in succession.

I know I'll get it back, thoughthe chappie who sold me the system said it never let him down.

These artist chappies aren't likely to turn down a commission when the money's up front.

When each of the dozen has a dozen chickens, you send the old hens back to the chappies you borrowed them from, with thanks for kind loan.

The woman was engrossed with the bill of fare, but the child's attention seemed riveted upon the Sausage Chappie.

Well, I had a word or two with this chappie, and after a brief conversation it was borne in upon me that I was up to the gills.

You know, the longer I live, the more clearly I see that half the trouble in this bally world is caused by the light-hearted and thoughtless way in which chappies dash off letters of introduction and hand them to other chappies to deliver to chappies of the third part.

The two couples greeted each other happily, indulged in a few rather obvious double entendres, and did their best to ignore the dog Chappie, who was currently lying on his back at Chance's and Tiffany's feet, all four paws in the air, tongue lolling out and showing everything he'd got.

Chappies keep them on ice for years and years, and don't sell them till they fetch about a dollar a whirl.

The double doors from the hospitality suite swung open and the Whitehall chappies, now in various stages of inebriation, entered in a rowdy concourse.