English

Proper noun

Kip

1. A diminutive of the male given name Kipling.

English

Alternative forms

• kipp, kippe, kyppe

Noun

kip ‎(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.

Translations

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.

Noun

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.

Translations

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• crash (US)

Translations

Etymology 3

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

Noun

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.

Etymology 4

1950–55, from Lao ກີບ ‎(kīp).

Noun

kip ‎(plural kip)

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

Translations

Etymology 5

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• kip-up

Translations

Anagrams

• KPI
• PKI

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. chicken, hen

Synonyms

• (chicken): hen, kieken, hoender

Derived terms

• kippenvel
• kippenvlees
• krielkip

Etymology 2

From Lao ກີບ ‎(kīp).

Noun

kip m ‎(uncountable)

1. Kip, currency in Laos.

Anagrams

• pik

References

1. ↑ http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/kip1

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From a Turkic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kîːp/

Noun

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

Declension

Derived terms

• ukípiti

References

• “kip” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkíːp/
• Tonal orthography: kȋp

Noun

kíp m inan ‎(genitive kípa, nominative plural kípi)

1. statue

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

kip ‎(definite accusative kipi, plural kipler)

1. form

Declension

West Uvean

Etymology

From English key.

Noun

kip

1. key

References

• Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, ISBN 3110206048)