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Adjective
My, you're looking chipper this morning.
She greeted me in a chipper voice.
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The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
Soon enough MacLachlan’s chipper F.B.I. agent Dale Cooper arrives, marveling at the local coffee and pie.
—Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
The super-chipper T.A. who serves as her driver and cheerleader (Rammel Chan) deposits Kate at a B&B whose snarling proprietor (Cindy Gold) seems to have chosen the wrong line of business.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2020
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Noun
The training is as much psychological as technical, as much moral as practical; the trainees are made aware of the grave implications of their work, yet life on the base is eerily chipper, complete with picnics and sports.
—The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
Soon enough MacLachlan’s chipper F.B.I. agent Dale Cooper arrives, marveling at the local coffee and pie.
—Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Wasn’t the entire point of season two making both the audience and Ted realize all the ways in which his ultra-chipper attitude and impenetrable optimism were a mask for decades of repressed sadness?
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
The super-chipper T.A. who serves as her driver and cheerleader (Rammel Chan) deposits Kate at a B&B whose snarling proprietor (Cindy Gold) seems to have chosen the wrong line of business.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2020
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“Chipper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chipper. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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