| n. | 1. | One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in the 14th or 15th century, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany. | ||||||
| 2. | The language used by the gypsies. | |||||||
| 3. | A dark-complexioned person. | |||||||
| 4. | A cunning or crafty person. | |||||||
| a. | 1. | Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.
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| v. i. | 1. | To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods. | ||||||
| Noun | 1. | Gypsy - a member of a nomadic people originating in northern India and now living on all continents |
| 2. | Gypsy - the Indic language of the Gypsies Synonyms: Romany |
| Gypsy - Specification and verification of concurrent systems
software. Message passing using named mailboxes.
Separately compilable units: routine (procedure, function, or
process), type and constant definition, each with a list of
access rights. ["Report on the Language Gypsy", A.L. Ambler et al, UT Austin ICSCS-CMP-1976-08-1]. |
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