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gipper¹

  • /ˈɡɪpɚ/ US

Where it comes from

From gip (“clean [fish] for curing”) + -er (agent noun suffix).

noun gippers

  1. One who gips (cleans fish in preparation for curing). One man takes the Herrings out of the Well with the Ladnet, and fils the Gippers baskets. ¶ 9 Gippers which cut their throats, and takes out the Guts, and fling the ful Herring into one Basket, and the ſhotten Herring into another.

Gipper²

Where it comes from

From Reagan's role as George "the Gipper" Gipp (1895–1920) in the 1940 film Knute Rockne, All American, which lead to him acquiring the nickname "the Gipper" (from Gipp + -er), later popularized by the media during his presidency.

proper noun the Gipper

  1. A nickname for American actor and politician Ronald Reagan. It took no more than a jaunty one-liner in the second presidential debate—"I refuse to hold my opponent's youth against him"—for large numbers of people to be reassured that if the Gipper had ever been out of it, he was now back.

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"gipper." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/gipper. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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gipper. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/gipper

Chicago

"gipper." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/gipper.

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@misc{gipper_2026,
  title = {gipper},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gipper},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}