clippie en · NOUN
Etymology
From clip + -ie, in reference to clipping tickets of passengers.
Meanings
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(UK, slang) A bus conductor.
And yet, in the last decade, women in trousers have ceased to be […] functionally invisible. (I can’t remember if clippies wear trousers or skirts, these days; that’s what I mean by invisible.)
1975, Angela Carter, “Trouser Protest”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 144:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| clippies | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| clippy | alternative | lexicographic |