Example sentences for: chippy

How can you use “chippy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • [T]he historian warms to this vain, chippy, wild-eyed, paranoid, and fiercely patriotic seer.

  • I would think that the words grand and stretch would be known to more people than two of the words the author gives as being familiar ( chippy and hootch ).

  • acecray outcray putting the ace on the bottom of the deck, where the dealer can abstract it bah-bah negligible object cake-slashing assault and mayhem century hundred dollars chippy dissolate girl chivvy unpleasant odor clip your tongue be silent cram the paper cheat at cards cut your chops mind your own business five hard a fist, or a punch frill girl, woman glued their traps remained silent going to the timbers retreating grand thousands dollars grease it pay bribe money, or blackmail hamburger down take it easy hock your skin make a difficult promise hootch liquor hotsprat trival but agreeable en- tertainment in the hole out of money lame your foot deprive you of assistance leathered kicked unfairly lippy-chaser a negro who prefers whites payman, a a cadet pinktail white person scrub face slide them into the eject them to the concrete sidewalk spreadeagle to knock down stick it capture something stick-stick defeated by the previous capture stretch jail term three-nine sexual variant thumb use the thumb to displace cards in a poker-game trip his muscle over-reach himself wraps, or skins, or strips dollars

  • I take the liberty of reprinting the glossary here, because some of the terms are far from common ( chippy, hootch , and century are perhaps the more familiar) and many are not included in standard dictionaries of slang:


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