wippy n.
(Aus.) one’s curent funds.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | (con. 1959) Up the Cross 9: ‘My lily of laguna is as empty as a country punter’s kick [...] you’d better hit the old wippy, son’. | |
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 45: So Dr William Bland, surgeon, emancipist, philanthropist, inventor, all-round genius and all-round mug-punter, again outlays his entire wippy on Mormon [ibid.] 154: Then he takes out 173 quids which constitutes his entire savings wippy and tells the cabbie to please take him to his boarding house. |
In phrases
(Aus.) pick-pocketing.
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 10: Mr Clarence Coke is last heard of [...] doing a bit of cut-pursing or wippy-picking. |