Chipper vs Hipper - What's the difference?
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Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.
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(British, Ireland, slang) A fish and chips shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.
(slang) A deep frier.
(US) A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper.
(US) (smoking) An occasional tobacco user, or more generally drug user.
A machine that chips potatoes ready to be fried and made into chips.
Someone who chips (e.g. wood)
A sportsman who chips the ball.
(hip)
(anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
(chiefly, sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock ).
To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
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(slang) aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy
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(slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.
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As adjectives the difference between chipper and hipper
is that chipper is exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful while hipper is comparative of hip.As a noun chipper
is a fish and chips shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.As a verb chipper
is to chirp or chirrup.chipper
English
(wikipedia chipper)Etymology 1
Adjective
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (cheap food store) greasy spoon, hole in the wallEtymology 2
Compare cheep, chirp.hipper
English
Adjective
(head)hip
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- (Waddell)
Derived terms
* hipbone * hip joint * hip replacement * hip roof * shoot from the hipVerb
(hipp)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) ).Derived terms
* rosehipEtymology 3
Probably a variant of . Maybe from (etyl) {{reference-book , first=Clarence , last=Major , year=1994 , title=Juba to jive: a dictionary of African-American slang , page = 234 , pageurl = http://books.google.fr/books?hl=fr&id=4LNZAAAAMAAJ&q=wolofAdjective
(hipper)- Rudolph promoted Stevens Pass with restless zeal. In seven years there, he helped turn a relatively small, roadside ski area into a hip destination.
Synonyms
* cool, groovyVerb
(hipp)- The guy hips himself to so many things.
