释义 |
clippie, clippy colloq.|ˈklɪpɪ| [f. clip v.2 (with allusion to the clipping of tickets) + -ie, -y6.] A bus-conductress.
1941New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3 Clippy, bus conductress. 1946News Chron. 27 Feb., London's 26,000 busmen and clippies are seriously perturbed at the bad name they are getting with the travelling public. 1959G. Usher Death in Bag i. 6 An ex-clippie on a local bus. |