Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at gipp.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Gipp.
Examples
-
Legend has it that Reagan acquired that nickname for his 1940 portrayal of George "win just one for the Gipper" Gipp, the famed Notre Dame football player from the Upper Peninsula.
Bill Chameides: Revisiting (Not Revising) History: The Reagan-Bush Energy Policy Bill Chameides 2011
-
He did not grow old, forced to deflect off a increasingly inquisitive questions of sportswriters wanting to know if George Gipp unequivocally did tell him to "win a single for a Gipper," or any of a alternative fables of Irish football lore.
Excerpt from PIGSKIN WARRIORS: 140 YEARS OF THE GAMES GREATEST ... admin 2009
-
He did not grow old, forced to deflect off a increasingly inquisitive questions of sportswriters wanting to know if George Gipp unequivocally did tell him to "win a single for a Gipper," or any of a alternative fables of Irish football lore.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
-
Legend has it that Reagan acquired that nickname for his 1940 portrayal of George "win just one for the Gipper" Gipp, the famed Notre Dame football player from the Upper Peninsula.
Bill Chameides: Revisiting (Not Revising) History: The Reagan-Bush Energy Policy Bill Chameides 2011
-
The body of George Gipp, of Ronald Reagan “Win one for the Gipper” fame, was exhumed by his family this week for reasons unspecified.
IN ODDER NEWS: Dig Up The Gipper Then Win One For His Skeleton | Best Week Ever 2007
-
In truth, the halftime talk was more skip than Gipp.
USATODAY.com - Fenson, U.S. curlers knock Sweden around 2006
-
Nulf declined to identify the relative but referred a reporter to Mike Bynum, a sports author who has researched Gipp and attended the exhumation.
-
Ellen Weeks Easton said that she had often heard that her grandmother, Eva Bright, had dated Gipp while he was at Notre Dame.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
-
Eva became pregnant at the age of 18 and gave birth to a daughter just a few days after Gipp died in December of 1920 of complications from strep throat.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
-
Ronald Reagan seemed to genuinely believe he was George “the Gipper” (The ‘G’ pronounced as in gastro-intestinal distress) Gipp of Knute Rockne and Notre Dame fame.
In the Guise of Fred Thompson, Ronald Reagan Rides Again 2007
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.