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Gypsy

/ˈd͡ʒɪp.si/

(sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).

📖 Definitions of "Gypsy"

noun
  1. 1

    (sometimes offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).

adjective
  1. 1

    (sometimes offensive) Of or belonging to the Romani people or one of it sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichel, etc).

noun
  1. 1

    An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.

  2. 2

    (sometimes offensive) A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other while maintaining eye contact (but not touching as in a swing). (Compare whole gyp, half gyp, and gypsy meltdown, in which this step precedes a swing.)

  3. 3

    A member of a Broadway musical chorus line.

  4. 4

    A person with a dark complexion.

verb
  1. 1

    To roam around the country like a gypsy.

  2. 2

    To perform the gypsy step in contra dancing.

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