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kip

/kɪp/

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noun

The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.

Examples :

"The shoemaker used soft kip leather to make comfortable baby shoes. "

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A bundle or set of such hides.

Examples :

"The leather worker carefully stacked the kip of sheep hides, ready to be tanned and used for making wallets. "

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A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.

Examples :

"The tannery worker carefully counted out one kip of goat skins, ensuring there were exactly fifty before sending them to the leather workshop. "

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The leather made from such hide; kip leather.

Examples :

"The shoemaker used soft kip to make durable children's shoes. "

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(chiefly UK) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.

Examples :

"After a long day of hiking, all I wanted was a hot shower and a warm kip. "

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(chiefly UK) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.

Examples :

"I’m just going for my afternoon kip."

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(chiefly UK) A very untidy house or room.

Examples :

"After the party, the living room was a complete kip. "

property place condition

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(chiefly UK) A brothel.

Examples :

""The old building on the edge of town was rumored to be a kip." "

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verb

(chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.

Examples :

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

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verb

To snatch; take up hastily; filch

Examples :

"Seeing the unattended candy, the toddler tried to kip it when his mother wasn't looking. "

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verb

To hold or keep (together)

Examples :

"The exhausted mother used a safety pin to kip her toddler's torn backpack strap together until she could buy a new one. "

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verb

To conduct oneself; act

Examples :

"Even though he was nervous about starting a new job, he tried to kip confidently and professionally. "

action way character being

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A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.

Examples :

"The engineer calculated that the bridge needed to withstand a load of 50 kips to be safe. "

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A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.

Examples :

"The trucking company charges $50 per kip to ship heavy machinery across state lines. "

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A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.

Examples :

"The engineer calculated that the bridge needed to support a load of 200 kips. "

mass unit amount

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

Examples :

"The souvenir cost 20,000 kip, but I didn't have enough Laotian currency to buy it. "

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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.

Examples :

"The gymnast practiced her kip repeatedly on the uneven bars, trying to smoothly swing up to a front support position. "

sport action technical body position achievement

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

Examples :

"The two-up game began, and the spinner carefully placed the coins on the kip before tossing it into the air. "

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noun

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

Examples :

"From the hilltop, we could see the small village nestled in the valley below the rugged kip. "

geography geology nature environment place

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verb

To perform the kip maneuver.

Examples :

"The gymnast had to kip to get over the high bar. "

sport body action