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kip

/kɪp/

kip noun: the untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.

kip: the untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat
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Noun (1)

kip (countable and uncountable, plural kips)

  1. The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
  2. A bundle or set of such hides.
  3. (obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
  4. The 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

Noun (2)

kip (plural kips)

  1. (Ireland, UK, informal) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
    • I’m just going for my afternoon kip.
  3. (Ireland, UK, informal) A very untidy house or room.
  4. (Ireland, UK, dated, informal) A brothel.
  5. (Ireland) A 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

Verb (1)

kip (third-person singular simple present kips, present participle kipping, simple past and past participle kipped)

  1. (UK, informal) To 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.
    • "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
    Synonyms:
    crash

Verb (2)

kip (third-person singular simple present kips, present participle kipping, simple past and past participle kipped)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, transitive) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To hold or keep (together)
  3. (Northern England, dialectal, intransitive) To conduct oneself; act

Noun (3)

kip (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. (nonstandard, rare) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.

Noun (4)

kip (plural kip)

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

Noun (5)

kip (plural kips)

  1. (Australia, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
    • 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

Noun (6)

kip (plural kips)

  1. A 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. (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

Verb (3)

kip (third-person singular simple present kips, present participle kipping, simple past and past participle kipped)

  1. (intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.

Noun (7) capitalized: KIP

KIP (plural KIPs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of kinetic impact round (baton round).

Proper noun capitalized: Kip

Kip (plural Kips)

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Kipling.

kip meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam

kip in Hindi

किप

kip in Marathi

किप

kip in Telugu

కిప్

kip in Malayalam

കിപ്, കിപ്പ്
More languagesFewer languages
kip in Kannada
ಕಿಪ್
kip in Punjabi
ਕਿਪ, ਕਿੱਪ
kip in Gujarati
કિપ
kip in Nepali
किप, किप्
kip in Arabic
كِيب kīb
kip in Thai
กีบ gìip
kip in Vietnamese
kíp, kíp Lào

Examples of kip in a sentence

  • Kip in and get to sleep!
  • I went back to bed, but I still couldn’t kip much.
  • Hurry out to your school kip and bring us back some money.

All 12 example sentences with kip

Synonyms of kip

Forms of kip

Noun
pluralkips
alternative formkipp
alternative formkippe
alternative formkyppe
pluralkip
pluralKIPs
Verb
third-person singular presentkips
present participlekipping
past participlekipped
pastkipped

Plural of kip: kip

Origin of kip

1325–75, Middle English kipp, from Middle Dutch kip, from Middle Low German kip (“pack, bundle of hides”).

1760–70, probably related to Danish kippe (“dive, hovel, cheap inn”) and Middle Low German kiffe (“hovel”). From the same distant Germanic root as cove.

From Middle English kippen, from Old Norse kippa (“to pull; snatch”) or Middle Dutch kippen (“to grasp, seize, catch”). Cognate with Norwegian kippe (“to snatch”), Swedish kippa (“to snatch; jerk”); Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch”). Perhaps conflated with some senses of Middle English kepen (“to keep, observe, guard, take possession of, snatch”) (see keep).

Words formed from kip

Words that rhyme with kip

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Questions about kip

What does kip mean?
Kip means the untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
What is kip in Hindi?
Kip in Hindi is किप. See Kip meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is kip?
Kip can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce kip?
Kip is pronounced /kɪp/.
What is the plural of kip?
The plural of kip is kips.

Words near kip in the dictionary

  1. Kiowans
  2. Kiowas
  3. Kioway
  4. Kioways
  5. Kiowia
  6. kip
  7. kip down
  8. kip in
  9. kip out
  10. kip up
  11. kip-shop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kip (page history and authors); KIP (page history and authors); Kip (page history and authors); kip (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kip (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kip (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kip (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kip (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kip (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kip (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kip (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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