Where Does the Term Gippo Come from?

The IWW first introduced the term gyppo during the unsuccessful 1917–18 Pacific Northwest loggers' strike, which called for an eight-hour day for loggers, although undoubtedly gyppo loggers existed before this date. Because the strike was unsuccessful, after the loggers returned to work they called a slowdown.

Is Gippo a bad word?

It's used pejoratively as someone who is sub-proletariat like 'gypsy' or 'gyppo' was used in the 1940s and 50s." It used to be a word only used among country people who were speaking disapprovingly of a tramp.

Where does Term Gyp come from?

Gyp/gip/jip is attested from 1794 as university slang for a servant that waited on students in their halls. This is said to have been especially a Cambridge word, and a story told there derived it from Greek gyps "vulture," in reference to thievish habits of the servants.