Adjective
My, you're looking chipper this morning.
She greeted me in a chipper voice.
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Noun
This alone makes The Baldwins a concerning prospect: A brief browse through the history of families featured on these shows might suggest that choosing to be on one is akin to putting your foot in a wood chipper.—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025 On a pro-Trump website, Reuters counted more than two dozen people calling for the execution of judges, police officers or Democratic officials, saying that some of these people should be hanged, beaten to death or fed into wood chippers.—Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Wasn’t the entire point of season two making both the audience and Ted realize all the ways in which his ultra-chipper attitude and impenetrable optimism were a mask for decades of repressed sadness?—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023 The super-chipper T.A. who serves as her driver and cheerleader (Rammel Chan) deposits Kate at a B&B whose snarling proprietor (Cindy Gold) seems to have chosen the wrong line of business.—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2020 See All Example Sentences for chipper
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
perhaps alteration of English dialect kipper lively
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