article_snippet: The word - used as a derogatory term for gipsies or travellers - was part of a ‘running gag’ between Clarkson and fellow presenter James May about their colleague Richard Hammond's perceived cheap style
article_snippet: The claim that it has evolved a new meaning and that most people do not realise it has any reference at all with Gipsies and Travellers is absolute rubbish.
article_snippet: The actual origins of the word are unclear.
article_snippet: Now, the word is used as an insulting term towards gipsies - who have claimed in recent years that it is the equivalent of calling a black person a
article_snippet: It is also used in the modern day as a term to insult someone of supposedly low class.
highlights_snippet: Word became part of 'running gag' between Clarkson and James May .
  