clippie

British

/ ˈklɪpɪ /

noun

informal a bus conductress

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Her mother, who had given up being a "clippie" on the buses when she married, took jobs as a cleaner and lived with Janice in a one-bedroom flat above the doctor's surgery she cleaned, latterly becoming a school dinner lady.

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