Definitions for chipper

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chipper chip·per

Spelling: [chip-er]

IPA: /ˈtʃɪp ər/

Chipper is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in chipper (cehippr).

Definitions for chipper

noun

1. a person or thing that chips or cuts.
2. a machine that grinds up logs, tree trunks, discarded Christmas trees, etc., into wood chips.
3. Slang. a person who uses narcotic drugs only occasionally or in small doses.

adjective

1. marked by or being in sprightly good humor and health.

verb (used without object)

1. to chirp or twitter.
2. to chatter or babble.

Origin of chipper

First recorded in 1830-40; of uncertain origin

Examples for chipper

A remark which inflamed Cooper, in spite of chipper's pretense that he did not hear it.

You'll find old Jim spry an' chipper, awaitin' you with a smile on his face.

He's feeling so chipper that, if it wasn't that I swore he shouldn't, he'd have got out of bed by this time.

But once we get up to speed, we climb upon a chipper wind and flourishingly soar.

So we decided to go right to the source, sitting down with the chipper 24-year-old actor to address the various reports.

Finally, after a couple of thwarted attempts, a chipper male voice announced that you had arrived.

Instead of being glum and pessimistic and foreboding, he was chipper and enthusiastic.

Gone was Hathaway the survivor; back was the chipper aggravator.

chipper managed to get it and wing it across to Crane for a clean put-out.

I started with email, where I had often signed off with a chipper “thanks!”