clippie

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bus conductor. UK,slang
    — 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.)

词形变化

clippies plural clippy alternative

词源

From clip + -ie, in reference to clipping tickets of passengers.
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