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adjective ˈtʃɪpəˈtʃɪpər informal Cheerful and lively. Eugene was feeling chipper Example sentencesExamples - The young woman looked over at him, and then flushed slightly, looking back at Dendria, who rolled her eyes, and shrugged slightly; the woman laughed, a pleasant, chipper sound.
- When I left, she was chipper and perky and seemed in as good of health as ever before.
- Jamieson was in chipper mood about returning to his homeland.
- It's a shame that the lively antics and chipper music of the Max & Ruby series, combined with a minimum level of interactivity, weren't applied to this extra.
- She hasn't had an alarm clock in 20 years (she's only mid forties) but she is up and awake and disgustingly chipper a full 3 hours before the winter sun.
- And that means you're not going to find that happy, chipper person you might have found in the '80s.
- But, oddly, I'm feeling rather chipper tonight.
- But maybe these are fairly happy times too: this year Bélanger was spotted at a video shop and a downtown spaghetti restaurant, walking around in apparently chipper form.
- Again, he seemed quite chipper, so we reckoned that he'd probably thrown up whatever was disturbing his digestion.
- When we last spoke to Damien he was very chipper.
- Abruptly interrupting his deep thoughts was a bright and chipper voice that seemed concerned about him.
- Spookily enough I feel rather chipper this morning.
- We certainly feel a bit more chipper than we did three months ago.
- Jesus, no wonder I've been so chipper the last couple of years!
- It was a tone at once chipper and woeful that suggested Maddy was a frail eggshell-spirited thing and had best be treated gently.
- He looked very chipper when he was in Paris, but less so back at the bunker.
- Normally, he was chipper and happy all the time.
- They're selling this as though it was this chipper comedy.
- I was very surprised to find three messages, all from NDM, who was sounding very chipper and he was asking me to call him back.
- ‘Wow, you're sure chipper this morning,’ Alex commented on the grin plastered on his sister's face.
Synonyms cheerful, happy, jolly, merry, bright, sunny, joyous, light-hearted, in good spirits, in high spirits, sparkling, bubbly, effervescent, exuberant, ebullient, cock-a-hoop, breezy, airy, cheery, sprightly, jaunty, smiling, grinning, beaming, laughing, mirthful, radiant
Origin Mid 19th century: perhaps from northern English dialect kipper 'lively'. Rhymes Agrippa, clipper, dipper, equipper, flipper, gripper, hipper, kipper, nipper, Pippa, ripper, shipper, sipper, skipper, slipper, stripper, tipper, tripper, whipper, zipper noun ˈtʃɪpəˈtʃɪpər 1A person or thing that turns something into chips. Example sentencesExamples - Nothing better for the job than one of those little back-yard chippers (ANOTHER reason to get one!)
- was that your friend there in the wood chipper?
- Use an ice chipper, a lawn edging tool, or a spade to scrape off grass or weeds encroaching on the driveway or inhabiting any cracks.
- This hinge-and-hold method creates an impact condition shared by all great chippers: a slightly descending blow that produces solid contact, with ultra consistent trajectory and spin.
- And then I will tell you you must have the special chipper / shredder in the Palace where you found my money, okay?
- Over 80 per cent of the wood taken will fall under the indiscriminate blades of the wood chipper.
- The owners of San Diego County ranches where employees tossed live chickens into wood chippers won't be prosecuted on animal cruelty charges.
- The wood trash section was run through a gigantic chipper; a big pile of damp-looking wood mulch lay around the back.
- The easiest way to get rid of them is to chip them out with a weed chipper.
- Unfortunately, it feels only slightly better than wedging your dogs into a wood chipper.
- The rest of Jack's varied gear, from skidders and haul trucks to a fully stocked service truck, serves to keep logs going into the chipper at one end and chips coming out the other.
- Displays, literature and videos will also be available on Morbark's entire line of tub grinders, whole tree chippers, flail chiparvestors, screens and more.
- Well we have certainly seen truckloads of myrtle logs go to the chipper.
- A chipper provided by the council made short work of the redundant trees, which were taken away to be composted and used around the city's parks.
- There is some suggestion that perfectly good sawlogs go through the chipper.
- In the period 1992 to 2002, there were 31 occupational deaths from mobile chippers in users aged less than 20-to - 60 years of age.
- Head groundsman Ralph White manned the chipper with two other groundstaff for four hours.
- The other challenge is making sure the chipper has a constant flow of chip vans to fill.
- I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?
- Ex-con neighbor just pulled into his driveway with a wood chipper!
- 1.1 A machine for chipping timber.
Example sentencesExamples - If he has any trouble feeding them into the wood chipper, I'd be more than happy to help out.
- Similarly, their use of balers, magnets, wood chippers, and other equipment typically used in the recycling industry makes perfect sense too.
- Maintenance costs of chippers tend to be higher, however, because their knives can't tolerate rocks, metal, and other contaminants the way that the hammer-mill grinders can.
- The company's internal combustion engines can be found powering lift trucks, industrial wood chippers and stationary irrigation pumps among other things.
- Wootton Bassett Town Council has bought a wood chipper so that residents can take their trees to be mulched at the Borough Fields car park on Saturday, January 11.
- As the thin trunks are piled onto trucks, other workers throw branches into a chipper, which sprays thumb-sized pieces of wood into a dump truck.
- To make wood-chip mulch, tow a chipper to the brush pile you left in the woods and blow the chips right into the trailer.
- Other power tools that are very popular include chippers and garden shredders.
- Most felling is done with a Hydro-Ax 511E, while cut trees are pulled to the chipper by Cat 525B skidders.
- Fargo, inexplicably, is sometimes categorized as a comedy by those that find pulverized body parts in wood chippers to be delightfully droll.
- It's the dog's fault, but she irrationally yells at me that I shouldn't use the wood chipper when I'm drunk.
- For two years, he has saved infected trees from the chipper and processed the wood for lumber under the banner of his own company Last-Chance Logs, founded for this purpose.
- For a finer mulch, run needles through a chipper or shredder.
- Step One - Insert the tree into the wood chipper, being EXTREMELY careful not to bump the tree into any windows or expensive-looking vases.
- The yard is full of gear: fellerbunchers, grapple skidders, two delimber debarker chippers, trucks, service vans and other assorted machines.
- Put all second-hand computer equipment through a wood chipper and pretend it never existed.
- Small birds can be killed by ‘maceration,’ which means they get tossed in something like a wood chipper.
- ‘It's much faster and easier than using chain saws and chippers or large horizontal or tub grinders,’ he says.
- Stupid alarm, Livi thought to herself bitterly, complete with a lovely mental image of the irritating machine smashed to pieces and thrown into a wood chipper.
- After digging out a large root system, the machines loaded the reed into a Marooka, a rubber-track transport that hauled the material to a chipper for processing.
2Irish informal A fish-and-chip shop. Example sentencesExamples - Late in the night someone mentioned going to the chipper.
- A number of young men and women, not from the area, went to the chipper after having had a few drinks in the town.
- It gave the referee a moment's reprieve from the home fans' incessant abuse but the chipper's proprietor seemed less impressed with the intrusion.
- Follow it past the post office, past the chipper, past the strange shop with the begonias in the window.
- He explained that earlier, there had been a disagreement at a chipper - not involving him - and others involved had come back and he had been hit.
- Frances was an entrepreneur in her own right and introduced the first chipper and later the first self service supermarket to Kiltimagh.
- Instead of going home to mammy for lunch invariably the kids will hit the chipper.
- To a generation of Irish people, the name Bruce Lee conjures up images of young men in denim throwing high kicks at each other outside the local chipper at closing time.
- The Northern visitor said it was basically the same attitude when they went to two other town centre bars and a chipper on the same night.
- There are mini-markets and chippers full of cheap food all over the country.
- The era of the green car, powered by fuel made from plants or used cooking oil from the local chipper, is coming that bit nearer.
- A group had gathered outside the only chipper still open and youths full of drink-fuelled aggression eyed one another.
- Some time later you get sent down for fighting in a chipper.
- He can't drink and he can't eat anything containing calcium, salt, potassium or phosphate, which rules out living in the chippers.
- The chipper will be closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Stephen's Day.
- Queues were the order of the night; for the toilets, for the chipper and, more importantly, for the beer, as the Heineken and Murphy's tent was well attended for most of the night.
- It was a clean-up for bars, especially, and also for hotels, guesthouses, restaurants and chippers.
- ‘It isn't as if I am suddenly opening the floodgates and letting the country be saturated in café bars,’ he said, adding that the new licences would not be given to takeaway restaurants and chippers.
- In the great tradition he's been named Lucky Luciano and amazingly for an Italian he's not here working in a chipper owned by his uncle.
adjectiveˈCHipərˈtʃɪpər informal Cheerful and lively. Eugene was feeling chipper Example sentencesExamples - When I left, she was chipper and perky and seemed in as good of health as ever before.
- I was very surprised to find three messages, all from NDM, who was sounding very chipper and he was asking me to call him back.
- The young woman looked over at him, and then flushed slightly, looking back at Dendria, who rolled her eyes, and shrugged slightly; the woman laughed, a pleasant, chipper sound.
- Spookily enough I feel rather chipper this morning.
- Abruptly interrupting his deep thoughts was a bright and chipper voice that seemed concerned about him.
- Normally, he was chipper and happy all the time.
- It's a shame that the lively antics and chipper music of the Max & Ruby series, combined with a minimum level of interactivity, weren't applied to this extra.
- He looked very chipper when he was in Paris, but less so back at the bunker.
- They're selling this as though it was this chipper comedy.
- Jesus, no wonder I've been so chipper the last couple of years!
- But, oddly, I'm feeling rather chipper tonight.
- Again, he seemed quite chipper, so we reckoned that he'd probably thrown up whatever was disturbing his digestion.
- When we last spoke to Damien he was very chipper.
- She hasn't had an alarm clock in 20 years (she's only mid forties) but she is up and awake and disgustingly chipper a full 3 hours before the winter sun.
- It was a tone at once chipper and woeful that suggested Maddy was a frail eggshell-spirited thing and had best be treated gently.
- We certainly feel a bit more chipper than we did three months ago.
- Jamieson was in chipper mood about returning to his homeland.
- But maybe these are fairly happy times too: this year Bélanger was spotted at a video shop and a downtown spaghetti restaurant, walking around in apparently chipper form.
- And that means you're not going to find that happy, chipper person you might have found in the '80s.
- ‘Wow, you're sure chipper this morning,’ Alex commented on the grin plastered on his sister's face.
Synonyms cheerful, happy, jolly, merry, bright, sunny, joyous, light-hearted, in good spirits, in high spirits, sparkling, bubbly, effervescent, exuberant, ebullient, cock-a-hoop, breezy, airy, cheery, sprightly, jaunty, smiling, grinning, beaming, laughing, mirthful, radiant
Origin Mid 19th century: perhaps from northern English dialect kipper ‘lively’. nounˈCHipərˈtʃɪpər 1A person or thing that turns something into chips. Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, it feels only slightly better than wedging your dogs into a wood chipper.
- Head groundsman Ralph White manned the chipper with two other groundstaff for four hours.
- The wood trash section was run through a gigantic chipper; a big pile of damp-looking wood mulch lay around the back.
- Use an ice chipper, a lawn edging tool, or a spade to scrape off grass or weeds encroaching on the driveway or inhabiting any cracks.
- Over 80 per cent of the wood taken will fall under the indiscriminate blades of the wood chipper.
- In the period 1992 to 2002, there were 31 occupational deaths from mobile chippers in users aged less than 20-to - 60 years of age.
- was that your friend there in the wood chipper?
- The other challenge is making sure the chipper has a constant flow of chip vans to fill.
- Displays, literature and videos will also be available on Morbark's entire line of tub grinders, whole tree chippers, flail chiparvestors, screens and more.
- Nothing better for the job than one of those little back-yard chippers (ANOTHER reason to get one!)
- Well we have certainly seen truckloads of myrtle logs go to the chipper.
- There is some suggestion that perfectly good sawlogs go through the chipper.
- Ex-con neighbor just pulled into his driveway with a wood chipper!
- The rest of Jack's varied gear, from skidders and haul trucks to a fully stocked service truck, serves to keep logs going into the chipper at one end and chips coming out the other.
- This hinge-and-hold method creates an impact condition shared by all great chippers: a slightly descending blow that produces solid contact, with ultra consistent trajectory and spin.
- And then I will tell you you must have the special chipper / shredder in the Palace where you found my money, okay?
- The owners of San Diego County ranches where employees tossed live chickens into wood chippers won't be prosecuted on animal cruelty charges.
- A chipper provided by the council made short work of the redundant trees, which were taken away to be composted and used around the city's parks.
- I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?
- The easiest way to get rid of them is to chip them out with a weed chipper.
- 1.1 A machine for chipping the trunks and limbs of trees.
Example sentencesExamples - As the thin trunks are piled onto trucks, other workers throw branches into a chipper, which sprays thumb-sized pieces of wood into a dump truck.
- Stupid alarm, Livi thought to herself bitterly, complete with a lovely mental image of the irritating machine smashed to pieces and thrown into a wood chipper.
- Other power tools that are very popular include chippers and garden shredders.
- Put all second-hand computer equipment through a wood chipper and pretend it never existed.
- Maintenance costs of chippers tend to be higher, however, because their knives can't tolerate rocks, metal, and other contaminants the way that the hammer-mill grinders can.
- Step One - Insert the tree into the wood chipper, being EXTREMELY careful not to bump the tree into any windows or expensive-looking vases.
- Wootton Bassett Town Council has bought a wood chipper so that residents can take their trees to be mulched at the Borough Fields car park on Saturday, January 11.
- The yard is full of gear: fellerbunchers, grapple skidders, two delimber debarker chippers, trucks, service vans and other assorted machines.
- The company's internal combustion engines can be found powering lift trucks, industrial wood chippers and stationary irrigation pumps among other things.
- For two years, he has saved infected trees from the chipper and processed the wood for lumber under the banner of his own company Last-Chance Logs, founded for this purpose.
- Fargo, inexplicably, is sometimes categorized as a comedy by those that find pulverized body parts in wood chippers to be delightfully droll.
- After digging out a large root system, the machines loaded the reed into a Marooka, a rubber-track transport that hauled the material to a chipper for processing.
- Small birds can be killed by ‘maceration,’ which means they get tossed in something like a wood chipper.
- It's the dog's fault, but she irrationally yells at me that I shouldn't use the wood chipper when I'm drunk.
- Similarly, their use of balers, magnets, wood chippers, and other equipment typically used in the recycling industry makes perfect sense too.
- If he has any trouble feeding them into the wood chipper, I'd be more than happy to help out.
- ‘It's much faster and easier than using chain saws and chippers or large horizontal or tub grinders,’ he says.
- Most felling is done with a Hydro-Ax 511E, while cut trees are pulled to the chipper by Cat 525B skidders.
- To make wood-chip mulch, tow a chipper to the brush pile you left in the woods and blow the chips right into the trailer.
- For a finer mulch, run needles through a chipper or shredder.
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