expatriate vs gypsy

expatriate

noun
  • One who lives outside one's own country. 

  • One who has been banished from one's own country. 

verb
  • To withdraw from one’s native country. 

  • To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. 

  • To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country. 

adj
  • Living outside of one's own country. 

gypsy

noun
  • An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny. 

  • A move in contra dancing in which two dancers walk in a circle around each other while maintaining eye contact (but not touching as in a swing). (Compare whole gyp, half gyp, and gypsy meltdown, in which this step precedes a swing.) 

  • A member of a Broadway musical chorus line. 

verb
  • To roam around the country like a gypsy. 

  • To perform the gypsy step in contra dancing. 

adj
  • Of or having the qualities of an itinerant person or group with qualities traditionally ascribed to Romani people; making a living from dishonest practices or theft etc. 

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