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gypsy

/jip-see/US // ˈdʒɪp si //UK // (ˈdʒɪpsɪ) //

吉普赛人,吉普赛,吉普塞人,吉卜赛人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural gyp·sies.

    • : Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. Roma. See Usage note at the current entry.
    • : the Indic language of the Roma; Romani.
    • : a person held to resemble a Roma, especially in physical characteristics or in a traditionally ascribed freedom or inclination to move from place to place.
    • : Informal. gypsy cab.
    • : Informal. an independent, usually nonunion trucker, hauler, operator, etc.
    • : Slang. a chorus dancer, especially in the Broadway theater.
    • : gyp.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. of or relating to the Roma; Romani.
    • : Informal. working independently or without a license: gypsy truckers.

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Examples

  • I actually found it quite pleasurable, and it prepared me for this strange, gypsy lifestyle of an actor.

  • The family held together in the gypsy jet stream that is military life.

  • The son of a schoolteacher and a bookkeeper, Hoskins had gypsy blood in him from his Romani grandmother.

  • With three others, they now constitute the San Miguel Five and play a combination of Afro-Latin, classical, and gypsy jazz.

  • Her moniker in headlines quickly transformed to “Mystery Gypsy.”

  • She was a thin, dark-eyed creature, with a gypsy face and a quantity of gray hair wound about on the top of her head.

  • Her gypsy face shone radiant out of her black cloth hood, and Ronald's was no less luminous.

  • Besides a tarantass, drawn by good Siberian horses, will always go faster than a gypsy cart!

  • But the stars and the Gypsy brethren forbid the banns, so they part eternally.

  • Which is a pity; a Gypsy Quakeress would be a charming fancy.