kippered

/ (ˈkɪpəd) /


adjective
  1. (of fish, esp herring) having been cleaned, salted, and smoked

  2. slang utterly defeated or outwitted

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How to use kippered in a sentence

  • At eight she has more tea, and generally a kippered herring, or a bit of cold mutton left from the noon dinner.

  • "kippered or mouldy or pickled, I will smoke one of them on the day you return," said he.

    Up and Down | Edward Frederic Benson
  • Bismarck herring, or kippered herring, acts in the same way.

    Psychotherapy | James J. Walsh
  • He packed a good supply of kippered salmon, and filled his pouch with kinni kinnick for smoking in his black stone pipe.

    Mount Rainier | Various
  • We had kippered all the big trout and very excellent they were later on, for no fish were to be had on the barrens.