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Definition of Gippos
1. gippo [n] - See also: gippo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gippos
Literary usage of Gippos
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 (1907)
"... the boots and knives and make himself generally useful, go roaming about the
country in a caravan, just like a couple of gippos en route to a fair. ..."
2. The Portfolio: Monographs on Artistic Subjects by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1894)
"Smart people in breeches and gaiters, old foresters with faces rugged as their
oaks, short black-eyed " gippos " prying and peeping between the broad ..."
3. The Soul of Dorset by Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton (1922)
"... if they were acquainted with the country —and, as an old man in the neighbourhood
said to me not long ago, " the gippos do know the lie of the land. ..."
4. Sporting Notions of Present Days and Past by Martin Cobbett, Alice Cobbett (1908)
"... some of the swell fighters and all the gippos could pretty well kill anyone
with their knees as they dropped after felling their enemy. ..."
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