The present participle of 'gip,' describing the act of cleaning fish or cheating someone.
From 'gip' plus the '-ing' suffix used to form present participles and gerunds in English.
Gipping fish was such a common sight in coastal towns that Charles Dickens and other Victorian writers used it as a metaphor for exploitation and harsh working conditions.
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