Adjective
My, you're looking chipper this morning.
She greeted me in a chipper voice.
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Noun
Directed by Paul Feig (who brought us Bridesmaids and The Heat), this genre-bending experience follows Stephanie, an awkward yet chipper single mother.—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025 Each song, many of which Kazi has paired with equally chipper and consistently viral TikTok dances, clocks in under two-minutes long.—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 8 May 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 See All Example Sentences for chipper
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
perhaps alteration of English dialect kipper lively
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