clippie

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

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clippie (plural clippies)

  1. (UK, slang) A bus conductor.
    • 1975, Angela Carter, “Trouser Protest”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 144:
      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.)