chipper
IPA: tʃˈɪpɝ
noun
- Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood).
- (in particular, US) A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper.
- A machine that chips potatoes into pieces that are ready to be fried and made into chips.
- (Ireland, slang) A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.
- A company that manufactures potato chips/potato crisps.
- (sports) A player who chips the ball.
- (golf) A golf club for making chip shots.
- (slang) A deep frier.
- (US, smoking) An occasional tobacco user, or more generally drug user.
verb
- (UK, dialect) To chirp or chirrup.
adjective
- Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.
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Examples of "chipper" in Sentences
- She loves chips from the chipper.
- She's rather chipper and optimistic.
- The chipper is actually a fish trap.
- You're in a chipper mood, considering.
- If we're not as chipper as you are,kev,
- Back hurting, but mood otherwise quite chipper.
- The spacing of the chippers controls the width of each board.
- Behind the chipper, there are provided a wet chip bunker and a dryer.
- Chipper chain improved dramatically on the performance of scratcher chain.
- A disk type wood chipper having cutter knives disposed non radially on a chipper disk to cut a slab of wood from a log and having guide means with ridges over which such slab is caused to slide so that the slab disintegrates into wood chips of substantially uniform size.
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