(informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.
(informal, chiefly UK, dated) A brothel.
Derived terms
kip-shop
Translations
Verb
kip (third-person singular simple presentkips, present participlekipping, simple past and past participlekipped)
(informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
Synonym:(US)crash
Derived terms
kip down
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle Englishkippen, from Old Norsekippa(“to pull; snatch”) or Middle Dutchkippen(“to grasp, seize, catch”). Cognate with Norwegiankippe(“to snatch”), Swedishkippa(“to snatch; jerk”); Dutchkippen(“to seize; catch”). Perhaps conflated with some senses of Middle Englishkepen(“to keep, observe, guard, take possession of, snatch”) (see keep).
Verb
kip (third-person singular simple presentkips, present participlekipping, simple past and past participlekipped)
(transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
(intransitive, obsolete) To hold or keep (together)
(intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act
Etymology 4
1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from kilo + pound.
Noun
kip (pluralkips)
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.
Etymology 5
1950–55, from Laoກີບ(kīp).
Noun
kip (pluralkip)
The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
Translations
Etymology 6
Unknown. Perhaps related to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire dialect kep, to toss up into the air. Or else, perhaps related to GermanKippe(“stub”).
Noun
kip (pluralkips)
(Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
References
Etymology 7
Unknown.
Noun
kip (pluralkips)
(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.
(Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
Derived terms
kip-up
Translations
Verb
kip (third-person singular simple presentkips, present participlekipping, simple past and past participlekipped)
(gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.
Anagrams
KPI, PKI
Azerbaijani
Pronunciation
Adjective
kip (comparativedaha kip, superlativeən kip)
tight, close (firmly held together; compact; not loose or open)
Adverb
kip
tight
kip oturmaq ― to sit closely
qapını kip örtmək ― to shut the door tightly
Derived terms
kip-kip
Dutch
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kɪp/
Hyphenation: kip
Rhymes: -ɪp
Etymology 1
Possibly from an imitative birdcall. Not found in Middle Dutch or other Germanic languages. Displaced the older term hen in northern Dutch around the 18th century.
The policeman sense might be from French "poulet", refering to police station in Paris that was built over a former farm.
Noun
kipf (pluralkippen, diminutivekippetjenorkipjen)
(chiefly Netherlands) A chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus.
Synonym:huishoen
A female chicken, a hen.
Synonyms:hen, hoen, kieken
(dated, slang, Netherlands)Synonym of politieagent
Derived terms
Descendants
Petjo: kip(archaic)
→ Loup A: kipkip
→ Mohawk: kítkit
→ Oneida: kítkit
→ Mohegan-Pequot: kikipus
Further reading
kip (vogel) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Etymology 2
From Laoກີບ(kīp).
Noun
kipm (uncountable)
Kip, currency in Laos.
References
Anagrams
pik
Jamaican Creole
Alternative forms
keep
Etymology
Derived from Englishkeep.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kiːp/
Verb
kip
to keep.
to hold a ceremony or event.
Further reading
Frederic Gomes Cassidy ((Can we date this quote?)) Dictionary of Jamaican English[2], page 258
kip in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From a Turkic language.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kîːp/
Noun
kȋpm (Cyrillic spellingки̑п)
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): /kíːp/
Noun
kȋpm inan
statue
Inflection
Tocharian A
Etymology
Compare Tocharian Bkwīpe.
Noun
kipm
shame
Turkish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Karakhanidكِيبْ(kīp), ultimately from Proto-Turkic*gēp. Doublet of gibi. Introduced during the language reform, displaced the Ottoman Turkish انموزج(enmûzec).
Noun
kip (definite accusativekipi, pluralkipler)
(grammar) verb mood
Declension
Derived terms
gibi
References
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kip”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
West Uvean
Etymology
From Englishkey.
Noun
kip
key
References
Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN