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Raregipsy
The correct spelling is gipsy.
How to pronounce gipsy
noun
Say it like: Jip-see
The correct spelling is gipsy. (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).
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Meanings
noun
- 1.(sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).
- 2.An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.
- 3.(sometimes offensive) A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other while maintaining eye contact (but not touching as in a swing). (Compare whole gyp, half gyp, and gypsy meltdown, in which this step precedes a swing.)
- 4.A member of a Broadway musical chorus line.
- 5.A person with a dark complexion.
verb
- 1.To roam around the country like a gypsy.
- 2.To perform the gypsy step in contra dancing.
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