dipper : Idioms & Phrases

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big dipper

  • noun a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
    Wagon; Wain; Charles's Wain; Plough; Dipper.
  • noun elevated railway in an amusement park (usually with sharp curves and steep inclines)
    chute-the-chute; roller coaster.
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double dipper

  • noun someone who draws two incomes from the government (usually by combining a salary and a pension)
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little dipper

  • noun a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
    Dipper.
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Scotch dipper, ∨ Scotch duck

  • (Zoöl.), the bufflehead; called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman.
Webster 1913

skinny-dipper

  • noun a naked swimmer
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The Dipper

  • (Astron.), the seven principal stars in the constellation of the Great Bear; popularly so called from their arrangement in the form of a dipper; called also Charles's Wain. See Ursa Major, under Ursa.
Webster 1913