gypsy
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- n a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
- n a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America)
- n the Indic language of the Gypsies
- A familiar gypsy trick is to enter a grocery store, wait until proprietor and clerks are occupied with important customers, then tuck turnips, garlic, apples, other staples under .
- She ushered in gypsy skirts, embroidered silk blouses and accompanying shawls.
- Fifty years ago, a gypsy boy of 17, with honeyed voice and horny hands, found God in the boom-diddy-boom of Salvation Army drums in the East London slums.