clippie
English
Etymology
From clip + -ie, since they clip the passengers' tickets.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪpi
Noun
clippie (plural clippies)
- (Britain, slang) A female bus conductor.
- 1975, Angela Carter, ‘Trouser Protest’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 144:
- And yet, in the last decade, women in trousers have ceased to be […] functionally invisible. (I can’t remember if clippies wear trousers or skirts, these days; that’s what I mean by invisible.)
- 1975, Angela Carter, ‘Trouser Protest’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 144: