kipe

K5I1P3E1
/ˈkaɪp/

noun

An osier basket used for catching fish.

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OriginMiddle English kipe ← Old English cȳpe ← Proto-Germanic *kipǭ →
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Meanings

kipe1

nounkipe (plural kipes)

plural kipes · alternative kype

  1. fishingAn osier basket used for catching fish.

    The completed kipe looks like a crinoline made for a giantess; from the slender waist the skirts swell to a diameter of eight feet at the hem. The kipe is only the mouth to the fisherman's elaborate trap and is fixed so that it faces up-river.

    1947, Brian Waters, Severn Tide, J. M. Dent, page 149

kipe2

verbkipe (third-person singular simple present kipes, present participle kiping, simple past and past participle kiped)

present singular third person kipes · participle present kiping · participle past kiped · past kiped · alternative kipp · alternative kype · alternative kypp

  1. slangTo steal.

    Johnny imagines all manner of chrome gadgetry that he could kipe and give to his father to jazz up his ’fifty-six Ford Vicky ragtop.

    1987 [1984], James Ellroy, chapter 22, in Because the Night, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 189

    Synonyms: steal, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bash and grab, bone

kipe3

nounkipe (plural kipes)

plural kipes

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of kype (“upturned lower jaw of a male salmonid”).

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo steal.

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Origin

kipe · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gey-“to bend, twist”
  2. Proto-Germanic*kipǭ
  3. Old Englishcȳpe
  4. Middle Englishkipe
  5. Englishkipe

From Middle English kipe, kype, from Old English cȳpe, cȳpa (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kipǭ, *kippǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist”). Akin to Middle Low German kīpe ("basket"; > German Low German Kiep, Kiepke (“basket”), German Kiepe (“carrying basket”)), Norwegian kaup (“wooden box; crate”).

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kipe · verb

Perhaps from dialectal kip (“to snatch”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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Chicago

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