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Definition of Gyppo
1. gippo [n -S] - See also: gippo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gyppo
Literary usage of Gyppo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1905)
"We were not destined, however, to leave the fair without a run for our money,
for the gyppo, having eased us of most of our cash, we were just thinking of ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"Presently the groom raised his small person, leaned on his broom and gazed on
Poley critically through one eye. "Ello! young gyppo . ..."
3. "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett (1918)
"The smells of Egypt disgusted Nipper, remembering the scents of the Australian bush.
Only once did he make the mistake of heeling-up a gyppo, after which he ..."
4. Idaho Forester by University of Idaho College of Forestry, University of Idaho (1921)
"'25, plans to do some "gyppo" logging for the Edward Rutledge Timber Co.
at Clarkia, Idaho, this summer. Harold Z. White, '25, had to drop out ..."
5. Frameworks for Sustainable Forests and Communities: American Community by Michael Hibbard, Matthew S. Carroll, Steven E. Daniels, Brett Kencairn, Paul Sommers (1995)
"Hundreds of independent "gyppo" harvesting operations went bankrupt: In the first
six months of 1980 more than half of the timber mills in the Douglas-fir ..."
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