kip

• enPR: kĭp, IPA^(key): /kɪp/
• 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) 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.

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

• crash (US)

From Middle English kippen, from Old Norse kippa (“to pull; snatch”). 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) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To hold or keep (together)
3. (intransitive, obsolete) 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.

1950–55, from Lao ກີບ (kiip).

kip (plural kip)

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

Unknown. Some senses may be related to German Kippe (“stub”).

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. (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.

3. (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.

• KPI, PKI

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /kɪp/

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• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /kɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

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

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

1. chicken, hen

• (chicken): hen, kieken, hoender

From Lao ກີບ (kiip).

kip m (uncountable)

1. Kip, currency in Laos.

• pik

• IPA^(key): /kʲip/

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kip

1. second-person singular imperative of kipieć

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): /ˈkíːp/
• Tonal orthography: kȋp

kíp m inan (genitive kípa, nominative plural kípi)

1. statue

From Old Turkic [Term?] kib, kip, from Proto-Turkic [Term?].

kip (definite accusative kipi, plural kipler)

1. form

From English key.

kip

1. key

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