gypo
Americannoun
PLURAL
gyposExample Sentences
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He played Gypo, who could be wildly self-destructive and achingly tender, often in the same scene.
From The Guardian
Gypo Nolan, O'Flaherty's protagonist, informs on a left-wing friend in the Irish civil war for the paltry sum of £20.
From The Guardian
I'm a bit gypsy, but not full-on gypo.
From The Guardian
The fictional Irish betrayer Gypo Nolan, in the movie The Informer, turned in his best friend to the British for � 20.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike O'Flaherty's "Gypo," who betrays out of weakness, Roth's O'Neill acts from moral strength and does it on a tide of tea.
From Time Magazine Archive
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