clippie

noun

clippie

noun

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

1

UK, Slang A bus conductor.

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, published 2013, page 144:

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