chipper vs off-the-wall

chipper

noun
  • A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper. 

  • A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods. 

  • A golf club for making chip shots. 

  • Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood). 

  • An occasional tobacco user, or more generally drug user. 

  • A machine that chips potatoes into pieces that are ready to be fried and made into chips. 

  • A player who chips the ball. 

  • A company that manufactures potato chips/potato crisps. 

  • A deep frier. 

verb
  • To chirp or chirrup. 

adj
  • Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful. 

off-the-wall

adj
  • Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd. 

  • Of a person's behaviour: greatly inappropriate. 

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