chappie

Definition of chappienext
British

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Recent Examples of chappie Editor’s note: Director Neill Blomkamp is back with his latest film Chappie this weekend. Mark Yarm, WIRED, 16 July 2013
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chappie
Noun
  • After a lengthy, wide-ranging search for their next coach, the Portland Trail Blazers have chosen one of the guys already at the front of the line.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 24 June 2026
  • Alcantara has never been known as a strikeout guy.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
    Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • That is some business that the gentlemen are discussing.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • Witnesses reported the suspects as two males in a 1990s white, two-door sedan, similar to a Honda Accord, with tinted windows, police said.
    Sydney Brammer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • That’s compared with 5% of cisgender male and 11% of cisgender female students.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Not the fun stuff — waving down at your antlike neighbors, chatting up green alien dudes — but the dicey stuff like zero gravity and sound and communication distortions?
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
  • But when danger walks in courtesy of a very large and formidable alien, Kara walks out and throws hands at the dude.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 June 2026

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“Chappie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chappie. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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