jip

English: ‘jeep’.

See original Mihalic entry.

Noun forms

  1. a jeep, specifically of the kind used by the armed forces during WWII and commonly procured from war surplus dumps, e.g. at Nadzab, in the late 1940s and early 1950s
    long taim bilong wo, ol jip bin lusim Kerema na wokabaut long Bulldog Rot i kam long Wau during the war, jeeps travelled from Kerema to Wau along the Bulldog Track

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