Meaning of squipper | Babel Free

Definitions

A survival equipment fitter.

UK, slang

Examples

“A third significant omission is due to the fact that large numbers of Chinook, Puma and Hercules aircrews [...] together with all the 'loadies', 'sooties', 'squippers' and ground crews that support⟳ them, continue⟳, at the time of writing, to be heavily involved in Operation Safe Haven along the northern borders of Iraq.”

“After stripping off all my other kit, I held my rubber- gloved hands behind me, the last⟳ bits still in the dirty zone, and the squipper peeled the gloves off.”

“Giving evidence to the inquest in Lincoln Cpl Morris, a Survival Equipment Fitter or “squipper” with the RAF, said he was not far from Flt Lt Cunningham’s jet at the time of the tragedy as the team prepared to fly⟳ to RAF Valley in Wales.”

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