Noun

(en noun)

The untanned 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 .

Noun

(en noun)

(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.

Noun

(en noun)

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.

Noun

(kip)

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

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Noun

(en noun)

(gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in 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.

(Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.

* 1951 , , 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.

A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

Noun

(en noun)

Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.

(humorous) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.

* , letter to Edward Garnett

I've got the pip horribly at present.

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter IV , passage=With this deal Uncle Tom's got on with Homer Cream, it would be fatal to risk giving [Mrs Cream] the pip in any way.}}

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A pippin.

A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.

(US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.

* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 612:

She sure is a pip , that one. You need company?

(British, dated, WW I, signalese) P in (RAF phonetic alphabet)

Noun

(en noun)

One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.

(military, public service) One of the stars worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.

A spot; a speck.

A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.

A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation

Noun

(en noun)

One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment if he is to continue his call.

Noun

(en noun)

(finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.