1868 Frazer's Mag. Feb. 225/1 The Foresters of the humbler class are on familiar terms with the ‘Gyps,’ or ‘Gipos,’ but can tell you little about them.

1885 Daily News 5 Sept. 5/6 By this particular [man named] Lancaster I mean the King of the Gippos (as they are locally termed), one of the three divisions of the Nomadic population.

1912 Eng. Rev. Oct. 476 I should soon have notice to quit—that is, just as soon as he could get some one else, perhaps a half gypo, or a lad, to take my place.

a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 21 Ducking under the gippo's clothespegs.

2005 H. Mantel Beyond Black ix. 303 They shout, sod off, you filthy gyppo.

1912 Outing Mag. Apr. 14/2 At this end of the road there were no ‘Gyppos’ or ‘wheel-barrow outfits’, as they call the independent freighters.

1987 J. Hodgins Honorary Patron (1989) v. 340 Though billed as successful businessmen, they looked like backwoods gyppo loggers used to tossing logs and people around with just their bare hands.

2001 High Country News 7 May 10/1 Most operators, or ‘gyppos’, run fairly modest operations and often have little more than a few chainsaws, a truck, and a trailer to sleep in.

1924 R. Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 127 What the Gippo girl 'ad told 'er.

2018 i (Nexis) 16 Mar. 42 Shunned by her peers, who call her ‘gyppo girl’, it is only when she meets the autistic Lorenzo that she finds a friend.

1916 Anzac Bk. 137 The erstwhile Land of Jacko did breed much ‘flue’ and ‘pneu’, and it did seem as though the plagues of the ancient Gyppos had descended upon them.

1919 Athenæum 8 Aug. 727/2 ‘Gypos’ for Egyptians.

1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 297 Gypos, the Egyptian army; Egyptian laborers.

1955 E. Waugh Officers & Gentlemen 208 ‘What's to stop him coming round the other side?’ asked Tommy. ‘According to plan—the Gyppos,’ said the Brigadier.

2001 Guardian 6 Jan. c5/2 My friend was a fanatical supporter of the invasion [of Egypt] (nothing was too bad for Johnny Gippo), while I, under my father's influence, was just as fanatically against it.

1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby iv. 62 Marmalade was a luxury, which, on four-day old Gyppo bread, you spread as thinly as tinfoil.

2015 C. Buck Conceiving Strangeness in Brit. First World War Writing iii. 101 Gippo English refers to Arabic-speaking Egyptians' use of English words and phrases in Alexandria during the [First World] war.