kip
1 Americannoun
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the hide of a young or small beast.
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a bundle or set of such hides.
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verb (used without object)
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sleep or slumber
to get some kip
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a bed or lodging
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a brothel
verb
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to sleep or take a nap
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(foll by down) to prepare for sleep
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of kip1
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English kipp, from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German kip “pack (of hides)”; akin to Old Norse kippa “bundle”
Origin of kip2
An Americanism dating back to 1910–15; ki(lo) + p(ound) 2
Origin of kip3
First recorded in 1950–55, kip is from the Lao word kì:p currency unit, ingot
Origin of kip4
First recorded in 1760–70, in sense “brothel”; compare Danish kippe “hovel, dive,” Dutch kuf “dive, brothel,” Middle Low German kuffe, küffe, kiffe “hovel”; perhaps ultimately expressive variants of the Germanic base of cove 1
Origin of kip5
First recorded in 1965–70; from German kippe “edge, arm of a balance,” from Low German: “point, edge,” from Latin cippus “stake, post”
Example Sentences
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Laos' currency, the kip, has been plunging and is down by more than a third against the US dollar this year.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2022
A 30% depreciation in the Lao currency, the kip, has worsened those woes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
The only two living souls I saw were a couple of vulnerably housed people, using the park benches for quiet kip.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2021
If you have 30 minutes, set an alarm, lie down and kip.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2017
I mounted the bar with a kip and swung myself up to the handstand.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
He kips on couches and loses somebody's cat.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013
The technical discussions ranged from such obscure items as the tariff on kips and pig-meat to important ones concerning future trade with Australia and New Zealand.
From Time Magazine Archive
They wun't do 'er naw 'arm, so long's she kips 'er heye on 'em ...
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 17, 1890. by Various
Rosemarie, it kips on tellin' dat you're all de worl' to me!
From By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by MacKay, Angus
Says 'e's got some kind o' water wot kips hun' from growink hold, My heye! strikes me if 'e 'ad, 'e wouldn't bein' sellin' soap 'bout 'ere.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various
Thus every summer the immigrant population of Hotel House increased exponentially as incoming workers kipped on friends’ or gangmasters’ floors.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2018
I graduated from a CrossFit Kid to a CrossFit Teen, snatching and push-jerking and kipping my way through adolescence.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2023
Funniest gag Johnson: "UKIP if you want to - David Cameron's not for kipping, not unless, obviously, he's at his sister-in-law's wedding."
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2013
It was oriental luxury after Bully-Grenay and the trenches, and for a wonder nobody had a word of "grousing" over "kipping" on the bare floor.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
How we discovered that "kipping" place I can't remember.
From The Road by London, Jack
When we came up, we inherited these underground shelters, and they were mighty comfortable after the kipping in the muck.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
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