chappie
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Holgate’s arm was held above his head, but neither referee nor VAR chappie is interested.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2021
The quintessential cheeky chappie turned his attention to cinema and, by the age of six, had his first film role, that of a cigar-smoking midget in Orchids and Ermine.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2014
One cheeky chappie in the Russian blogosphere took my original image and cut-and-pasted a portrait of the two leaders on to the wall above the loos.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2014
Of course, if you're a cheerful chappie who's more interested in perfecting his arm ball than hitting the books, you can easily feign these depths by asking ludicrously pointless questions – What is art?
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2010
“You have your RAF chappie wearing a beret. I really don’t think so. Outside the Tank Corps, even the army didn’t have them in 1940. I think you’d better give the man a forage cap.”
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
After World War I, the chappies set the stylistic tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
America is faced with overwhelming problems, the voters are deeply concerned about our future, and they’re happy little chappies in the cable news town hall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2016
But our chappies can cope with the terrorists.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole thing reminded me of one of those melodramas where they drive chappies out of the old homestead into the snow.
From My Man Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
All a publisher has to do is to write cheques at intervals, while a lot of deserving and industrious chappies rally round and do the real work.
From My Man Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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