kipple

kipple noun: useless items; junk; clutter; (originally) a force of entropy.

Noun

kipple (uncountable)

(colloquial) Useless items; junk; clutter; (originally) a force of entropy.
- “Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday’s homeopape. When nobody’s around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there’s twice...2008 [1968], Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 65
- Kipple is now all the algo-rubbish online, our bulging inboxes, the AI slop. Could [PK] Dick have predicted this? […] Either way, his advice still applies, both prescient and inspiring: maybe all we can do is find a balance between the pressures of kipple and nonkipple – the useless junk and the...2026 January 10, Joanna Kavenna, “Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Synonyms:

crapola

Antonyms:

nonkipple

Proper noun capitalized: Kipple

Kipple (plural Kipples)

A surname.

Examples of kipple in a sentence

“Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday’s homeopape.2008 [1968], Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 65:
Kipple is now all the algo-rubbish online, our bulging inboxes, the AI slop.2026 January 10, Joanna Kavenna, “Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present”...

Synonyms of kipple

crapola

Antonyms

nonkipple

Forms of kipple

plural	Kipples

Origin of kipple

Popularized in Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968); originally the name of a SF fanzine, from the humorous interpretation of Kipling as a participle.

Questions about kipple

What does kipple mean?: Kipple means useless items; junk; clutter; (originally) a force of entropy.
How do you use kipple in a sentence?: “Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday’s homeopape.
What part of speech is kipple?: Kipple can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near kipple in the dictionary

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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