Kip

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kĭp, IPA: /kɪp/, SAMPA: /kIp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

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.
5. (informal, chiefly UK) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
6. (informal, chiefly UK) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.

   I’m just going for my afternoon kip.

7. (informal, chiefly UK) A very untidy house or room.
8. (informal, chiefly UK, dated) A brothel.
9. A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
10. A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
11. (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
12. The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
13. (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, 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.
14. (Australian, dated) Piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
15. (Scots) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

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)