I. ˈkip noun
( -s )
Etymology: obsolete Dutch, bundle of hides, bundle of flax, from Middle Dutch; akin to Middle Low German kip bundle of hides, bunch of fish, Old Norse kippi bundle, sheaf
1. : a set or bundle of undressed hides of young or small animals (as calves, lambs, colts)
2. : one of the undressed hides in a kip ; specifically : a skin coming from a bovine animal in size between a calf and a matured animal and weighing from 16 to 25 pounds in green salted condition
II. noun
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Etymology: origin unknown
dialect England : the common tern
III. noun
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Etymology: perhaps from Danish kippe cheap tavern
1. : bed
ready for the kip after this screwball day — K.M.Dodson
was in kip — Richard Llewellyn
2. : sleep
get some kip — Paul Scott
IV. intransitive verb
( kipped ; kipped ; kipping ; kips )
: to lie in bed : sleep
a ragged blanket to kip in by nights — Richard Dehan
— sometimes used with down
you can kip down … and get a bit of sleep — Edith Sitwell
V. noun
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Etymology: German kippe edge, seesaw, arm of a balance, kip, from Low German, point, edge, from Latin cippus stake, post — more at cepe
1.
a. : a gymnastic feat that is executed when hanging by the hands from a piece of apparatus and consists of moving from a position in which the legs are above the head to one with the head above the feet by flexing the hips and swinging the legs forward and upward above the head, then arching the back and thrusting with the chest and forcibly kicking the legs downward to raise the body — called also upstart
b. : a similar movement executed from a cross seat on the parallel bars by dropping backward with straight arms into position
2. : a synchronized swimming stunt in which from a back layout position both knees are drawn to the chest and the trunk is submerged backward to a head down vertical position followed by extension of the legs and complete submersion of the body
VI. intransitive verb
( kipped ; kipped ; kipping ; kips )
: to perform a kip in gymnastics or swimming
VII. noun
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Etymology: ki lo + p ound
: a unit of weight equal to 1000 pounds used to express deadweight load
VIII. noun
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Etymology: origin unknown
: a small piece of wood from which the pennies are tossed in the Australian game of two-up
IX. noun
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Etymology: Siamese
: the basic monetary unit of Laos from 1955 divided into 100 at — see money table