kip
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[edit] Etymology 1
1325–75, Middle English kipp, from Middle Dutch kip, from Middle Low German kip (“pack, bundle of hides”)
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- kipp, kippe, kyppe
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kip (plural kips)
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- (obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
- The leather made from such hide; kip leather.
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[edit] Etymology 2
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.
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kip (plural kips)
- (informal, chiefly UK) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- (informal, chiefly UK) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- I’m just going for my afternoon kip.
- (informal, chiefly UK) A very untidy house or room.
- (informal, chiefly UK, dated) A brothel.
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informal: nap
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kip (third-person singular simple present kips, present participle kipping, simple past and past participle kipped)
- (informal, chiefly UK) 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.
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- crash (US)
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to sleep, in a temporary, charitable, or necessary situation
[edit] Etymology 3
1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from kilo + pound.
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kip (plural kips)
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
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1950–55, from Lao ກີບ (kiip).
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kip (plural kip)
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unit of currency in Laos
[edit] Etymology 5
Unknown. Some maybe related to German Kippe (“stub”).
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kip (plural kips)
- (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, 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.
- (Australian, dated) Piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
- (Scots) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
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gymnastics: move or maneuver from below the equipment to above it
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- (Belgium) IPA: /kɪp/
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audio (Belgium) (file) - (Netherlands) IPA: /kɪp/
[edit] Noun
kip f. (plural kippen, diminutive kipje)
kip m. and f. (uncountable)
- Kip, currency in Laos.
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[edit] Serbo-Croatian
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From Hungarian kép.
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kip m. (Cyrillic spelling кип)
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kip m.
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From Old Turkic kib, kip, from Proto-Turkic.
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kip
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