as in prostitutes
a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman
detectives wanted to talk to the chippies who were regulars at the bar—to learn if they had seen anything
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Noun
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Prosecutors have insisted, however, that Diddy wasn’t paying prostitutes just to make blue movies in their own court filings.—
Victoria Bekiempis,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025 -
This happened years after Epstein was convicted of felony solicitation of prostitutes and procuring persons under 18 for prostitution.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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Once per act, a second duo crashes in on Didi and Gogo, providing the tramps’ power balance with a lurid, distended foil.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Families huddled in safe rooms assume the sirens will end soon but grow alarmed as the sound of gunfire builds.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
14 Oct. 2025
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And after so many years of unceasing war and endless danger, today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Chippies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chippies. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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