kipper 1
/kip"euhr/ , n.
1. a fish, esp. a herring, that has been cured by splitting, salting, drying, and smoking.
2. this method of curing fish.
3. a male salmon during or after the spawning season.
v.t.
4. to cure (herring, salmon, etc.) by splitting, salting, drying and smoking.
[ bef. 1000; ME kypre, OE cypera spawning salmon, appar. deriv. of cyperen of copper, i.e., copper-colored ]
kipper 2
/kip"euhr/ , n. Australian Informal.
a young male Aborigine, usually 14 to 16 years old, who has recently undergone his tribal initiation rite.
[ 1835-45; gibirr man ]