1. irritable or bad-tempered
Usage: informal
2. having chips or being chipped

1. a fish and chips shop
Usage: British informal
2. a carpenter
Usage: informal

Examples

• He gets chippy when he’s tired.
• The old paint on the fence looks chippy.
• We stopped at the local chippy for dinner.
• The chippy finished building the deck yesterday.
• She was feeling chippy after the long meeting.
• The chippy surface needs to be sanded smooth.
• The chippy serves the best fish and chips in town.