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- noun   The state or condition of being chipper ;optimism .
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Examples
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								It came from humble beginnings, the kind of chipperness you should feel at the start of your main event campaign ... 
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								But the bright gloss Hallmark lathers onto it — that unrelenting chipperness that permeates everything from the music to the lighting — makes your eyes ache. 
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								He slowed down the melody, stripping it of the chipperness that Don Gibson used to contradict his lonesomeness. 
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								–It is worth noting that the communist dictum, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” is a pollution of male-brain dismalness with uncharacteristic female-brain chipperness. Whose voice? 2004 
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								I am making myself sick with all the chipperness, but who cares? because I HAVE CUTE HAIR! idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2004 
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								No snooty barristas here, just Glenn and his partner, Travis, and a rotating army of pretty girls and handsome boys who maintained the right degree of chipperness, depending on the hour: mellow in the morning, perky in the afternoon, laid-back in the evening. In a Strange City Lippman, Laura, 1959- 2001 
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								Then he worked up a rather sickly sample of a gay laugh and a hollow chipperness of manner, and said: Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955 
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								Then he worked up a rather sickly sample of a gay laugh and a hollow chipperness of manner, and said: 
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								Played with alarmingly intense chipperness by Jacob Hoffman, Louis is NYT > Home Page 2010 
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								My voice is a little shrill with enforced chipperness. spy scribbler 2009 
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