gippo
/ˈd͡ʒɪpəʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Every foreigner in Cairo’s piling into the trains[.] The gyppo porters are having a high old time at the station."
- "He had his “dinner” in his canteen and placed it on the ground to go and “scrounge” a chunk of bread to help “fill up”, and as soon as he turned his back a dog walked in at the door of the barn, where we were “in residence” as they say “higher up”, [only we “flew no flag”], and started lapping up some of the “gippo”, [gravy] of which the said dinner was composed [in fact 'twas more “gippo” than dinner that day, so who could blame a dog for being mistaken]."
- "They were always asking for ‘more gippo’ (gravy) which we got for them if we could."
- "But even where the company does its own logging, the size of the timber enables it to use a modified form of the contract system, somewhat analogous to the sweatshop system in other industries and sinisterly named by the I.W.W., the "gyppo" system."
Etymology
Usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Offensive
- Slang
- Uncountable