chippy
adj.— «Tonight’s game was a little chippy, conceded Roger Neilson. We’re trying to play as rough as we can.» —“Spare us the tales of hockey heroics” by Allen Abel Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) Apr. 24, 1978. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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