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(adjective) applied to hockey games: rough, involving lost tempers, fighting, and ejections
One ejection, four guys on the bench at once, and a broken collarbone. That hockey game was getting kind of chippy.
a female prostitute, especially a young and inexpensive one
Watch out for the chippies downtown.
adj. In hockey, to play aggressively and physically, just short of playing illegally. May suggest some of the checks are getting personal in their retaliatory zeal.
Said after a particularly vicious but legal hit against the boards: "The boys are getting a little bit chippy out there."