kip

• enPR: kĭp, IPA^(key): /kɪp/

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• Rhymes: -ɪp

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

• kipp, kippe, kyppe

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; kip leather.

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.

kip (plural kips)

1. (informal, chiefly UK) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
2. (informal, chiefly UK and Australia) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.

   I’m just going for my afternoon kip.

3. (informal, chiefly UK) A very untidy house or room.
4. (informal, chiefly UK, dated) A brothel.

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

1. (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
   • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 56:

     "Steady on, mate. How was I to know this was your gaff? I was lookin' for somewhere to kip."

   Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed.

   Synonym: (US) crash

From Middle English kippen, possibly related to Old English cēpan (“to seize, hold, observe”) and modern Keep.' Possibly related to Old Norse kippa (“to pull; snatch”). Possible cognate with Norwegian kippe (“to snatch”), Swedish kippa (“to snatch; jerk”); Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch”).

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

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

1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from kilo + pound.

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

1000 kip issued in 2003

1950–55, from Lao ກີບ (kīp).

kip (plural kip)

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

Unknown. Perhaps related to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire dialect kep, to toss up into the air.[1] Or else, perhaps related to German Kippe (“stub”).

kip (plural kips)

1. (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
   • 1951, Jon Cleary, The Sundowners, 1952, page 208,

     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.

   • 2003, Gilbert Buchanan, Malco Polia - Traveller, Warrior, page 52,

     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.

   • 2010, Colin McLaren, Sunflower: A Tale of Love, War and Intrigue, page 101,

     Jack discarded a length of wood, two twists of wire, his two-up kip and a spanner.

Unknown.

kip (plural kips)

1. (gymnastics) 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.

• kip-up

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

1. (gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.

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kip (comparative daha kip, superlative ən kip)

1. tight, close (firmly held together; compact; not loose or open)

kip

1. tight

   kip oturmaq ― to sit closely

   qapını kip örtmək ― to shut the door tightly

   • 1988, Afaq Məsud, Qəza‎:

     Paltarın hər iki yanı hazır idi. Qalxıb gecə köynəyini soyundu, paltarı geyinib güzgünün qabağında dayandı. Paltar əyninə kip otururdu.

     Both sides of the dress were ready. She got up, took off her nightgown, put on the dress, and stood in front of the mirror. The dress sat tightly on her body.

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• IPA^(key): /kɪp/

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• Hyphenation: kip
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Possibly from an imitative birdcall, or related to Proto-West Germanic *kiukīn (compare kuiken and kieken).[1]

kip f (plural kippen, diminutive kippetje n or kipje n)

1. (chiefly Netherlands) A chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus.
2. A female chicken, a hen.

   Synonyms: hen, kieken, hoender

3. (dated, slang, Netherlands) A cop.

   Synonyms: flik, klabak, politieagent, smeris, wout

• Petjo: kip (archaic)
• → Loup A: kipkip
• → Mohawk: kitkit
• → Mohegan-Pequot: kikipus

From Lao ກີບ (kīp).

kip m (uncountable)

1. Kip, currency in Laos.

• pik

Borrowed from English cheap.

kip (neuter kipt, definite singular and plural kipe, comparative kipare, indefinite superlative kipast, definite superlative kipaste)

1. (pre-2005) alternative form of kjip

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• Rhymes: -ip
• Syllabification: kip

kip

1. second-person singular imperative of kipieć

Borrowed from French kip.

kip m (plural kipi)

1. kip

• kip in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From a Turkic language.

• IPA^(key): /kîːp/

kȋp m (Cyrillic spelling ки̑п)

1. statue

   Kip Slobode ― the Statue of Liberty

   Zeusov kip u Olimpiji ― the statue of Zeus at Olympia

   arheolog je pažljivo ispitao kip ― archeologist has carefully examined the statue

• ukípiti

• “kip” in Hrvatski jezični portal

• IPA^(key): /kíːp/

kȋp m inan

1. statue

Compare Tocharian B kwīpe.

kip m

1. shame

Learned borrowing from Karakhanid كِيبْ‎ (kīp), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *gēp. Doublet of gibi. Introduced during the language reform, displaced the Ottoman Turkish انموزج‎ (enmûzec).

kip (definite accusative kipi, plural kipler)

1. (grammar) verb mood

• gibi

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kip”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

From English key.

kip

1. key

• Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN