gippo

noun gippos · gippoes · gypo · gyppo

1. UK, countable, offensive, slang, uncountable A Gypsy.
2. UK, countable, offensive, rare, slang, uncountable An Egyptian. Every foreigner in Cairo’s piling into the trains[.] The gyppo porters are having a high old time at the station.
3. UK, slang, uncountable Gravy. He had his “dinner” in his canteen and placed it on the ground to go and “scrounge” a chunk of bread to help “fill up”, and as soon as he turned his back a dog walked in at the door of the barn, where we were “in residence” as they say “higher up”, [only we “flew no flag”], and started lapping up so
4. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of gyppo logger But even where the company does its own logging, the size of the timber enables it to use a modified form of the contract system, somewhat analogous to the sweatshop system in other industries and sinisterly named by the I.W.W., the "gyppo" system.