gypo
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The child, whom they had named Josepha, grew to girlhood, and reached young womanhood as a sprite of the camps—a gypo queen.
From The She Boss A Western Story by Hankins, Arthur Preston
At that time Peter Modock—"Pickhandle" Modock—had been what is known in railroad-construction circles as a gypo man, or shanty man.
From The She Boss A Western Story by Hankins, Arthur Preston
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