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gipsy

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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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noun

  1. 1.(sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).
  2. 2.An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.
  3. 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. 4.A member of a Broadway musical chorus line.
  5. 5.A person with a dark complexion.

verb

  1. 1.To roam around the country like a gypsy.
  2. 2.To perform the gypsy step in contra dancing.

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