Word.ws English Dictionary

kips

kips is the plural of kip.

kips is the third-person singular simple present indicative of kip.

Meaning of kip

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.

See all 22 meanings of kip

Noun capitalized: KIPS

KIPS pl (plural only)

  1. (abbreviation, plural, plural-only) Abbreviation of thousand instructions per second.

Proper noun capitalized: Kips

Kips

  1. (plural) plural of Kip

Origin of kips

k- (“kilo-, 1000x”) + IPS

Phrases with kips

Questions about kips

What is kips the plural of?
Kips is the plural of kip.
What part of speech is kips?
Kips can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near kips in the dictionary

  1. Kipples
  2. kippot
  3. kippoth
  4. Kipps
  5. Kipruto
  6. kips
  7. kips down
  8. kips in
  9. kips out
  10. kips up
  11. kipsie

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kips (page history and authors); KIPS (page history and authors); Kips (page history and authors); kip (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “kips.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kips. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.