chipper

Meanings

Adjective

• Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.

Noun

• A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.
• A deep frier.
• A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper.
• An occasional tobacco user, or more generally drug user.
• A machine that chips potatoes ready to be fried and made into chips.
• A company that manufactures potato chips/potato crisps.
• Someone who chips (e.g. wood).
• A player who chips the ball.
• A golf club for making chip shots.

Verb

• To chirp or chirrup.

Related

Similar words

• chippy, greasy spoon, hole in the wall

Origin

• , kipra, Norwegian kjapp, Dutch kippen. More at kip.
• chip + -er
• Compare cheep, chirp.