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What (who) is gyppo - definition


gyppo         
  • Crew of gyppo logging outfit, Tillamook County, Oregon, October 1941
  • Loading logs onto a truck for transportation to a mill, Tillamook County, Oregon, October 1941
['d??p??]
(also gippo)
¦ noun (plural gyppos) informal, offensive a Gypsy.
Gyppo logger         
  • Crew of gyppo logging outfit, Tillamook County, Oregon, October 1941
  • Loading logs onto a truck for transportation to a mill, Tillamook County, Oregon, October 1941
A gyppo or gypo logger is a logger who runs or works for a small-scale logging operation that is independent from an established sawmill or lumber company. The gyppo system is one of two main patterns of historical organization of logging labor in the Pacific Northwest United States, the other being the "company logger".
Examples of use of gyppo
1. "If you want to get on the wrong side of a member of mine, calling him a gyppo would soon raise his hackles." Mr Noble and John Murphy, organisers of Newcastle‘s Hoppings, say a showman‘s life is physically hard; it requires adaptability, stamina and instinct too.