kip

plural kips · alternative kipp · alternative kippe · alternative kyppe

1. countableuncountableThe untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
2. countableuncountableA bundle or set of such hides.
3. countableobsoleteuncountableA unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
4. countableuncountableThe leather made from such hide.

   'Stockings, madam? Shoes?' 'Yes, your Honor — both.' 'Yarn, perhaps? Morocco?' 'Yarn, your Honor. And kip.'

   1902, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), A Double Barrelled Detective Story

plural kips

1. IrelandUKinformalA place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
2. CommonwealthIrelandUKinformalSleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.

   I’m just going for my afternoon kip.

3. IrelandUKinformalA very untidy house or room.
4. IrelandUKdatedinformalA brothel.
5. IrelandA job.

   —I get paid this morning, Stephen said. —The school kip? Buck Mulligan said. How much?

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 11

present singular third person kips · participle present kipping · participle past kipped · past kipped

1. UKinformalTo sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.

   Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed.

   2 more examples

   "Steady on, mate. How was I to know this was your gaff? I was lookin' for somewhere to kip."

   1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 56

   He took off his thick black coat and threw it to Harry. "You can kip under that," he said. "Don' mind it if wriggles a bit, I think I still got a couple o' dormice in one o' the pockets."

   1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, published 1998, page 60

   Synonyms: crash

present singular third person kips · participle present kipping · participle past kipped · past kipped

1. Northern EnglandScotlanddialectaltransitiveTo snatch; take up hastily; filch
2. intransitiveobsoleteTo hold or keep (together)
3. Northern EnglanddialectalintransitiveTo conduct oneself; act

plural kips

1. A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
2. A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
3. nonstandardrareA unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.

1. The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.

plural kips

1. Australiatwo-upgamesA piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.

   Jack discarded a length of wood, two twists of wire, his two-up kip and a spanner.

   2010, Colin McLaren, Sunflower: A Tale of Love, War and Intrigue, page 101

   2 more examples

   Again Turk placed the pennies on the kip. He took his time, deliberate over the small action, held the kip for a long breathless moment, then jerked his wrist and the pennies were in the air.

   1951, Jon Cleary, The Sundowners, published 1952, page 208

   Money was laid on the floor for bets on the heads or tails finish of two pennies tossed high into the air from a small wooden kip.

   2003, Gilbert Buchanan, Malco Polia - Traveller, Warrior, page 52

plural kips

1. gymnasticsA basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
2. ScotlandA sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

present singular third person kips · participle present kipping · participle past kipped · past kipped

1. intransitivegymnasticsTo perform the kip maneuver.

plural Kips

1. A diminutive of the male given name Kipling.

plural KIPs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of kinetic impact round (baton round).