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▪ I. kip, n.1|kɪp|
Also 6 kyppe, keippe, kepe, 7 kipp(e.
[Of uncertain origin. Sense 2 corresponds to MDu. kip, kijp, pack or bundle, esp. of hides (see Verwijs and Verdam); but there is no direct evidence that sense 1 was developed from 2.
Hardly to be connected with Flem. kippe new-born or young calf, G. kippe ewe.]
1. The hide of a young or small beast (as a calf or lamb, or cattle of small breed), as used for leather.
1530Palsgr. 236/1 Kyppe of lambe a furre [no Fr.]. 1617Nottingham Rec. IV. 353 A kipp to make a cover for the charter. 1776Excise-book in Dorset County Chron. (1881) 2 June, [Kinds of hides] sheep and lamb, butts and backs, calves and kips. 1852C. Morfit Tanning & Currying (1853) 146 Kips, consisting of the younger growth of the above animals [oxen, horses, cows, bulls, and buffaloes]. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts III. 24 The tanners call the skins of young animals kips. The skins of full-grown cattle of small breed are also so called. a1882Kendall Poems (1886) 192 A hero in moleskin and kip.
2. A set or bundle of such hides, containing a definite number: see quots.
c1525Northumbld. Househ. Bk. (1827) 355, ij Keippe and a half [of lamb skin] after xxx Skynnes in a Kepe. 1612A. Hopton Concord. Yeares 164 The skins of Goats are numbered by the Kippe, which is 50. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 67 Skins of Goats. In 1 Kippe, 50 Skins. c1890Correspondent, A kip of chamois skins is now 30.
3. attrib., as kip leather (used chiefly for the uppers of shoes), kip-skin.
1828Craven Dial., Kip-leather, the tanned hide of a stirk. 1833Act 3 & 4 Will. IV, c. 56 Calf Skins and Kip Skins, in the Hair, not tanned. 1844Port Phillip Patriot 25 July 3/6 Half ton Hobart Town kip leather. 1891Auckland (N.Z.) Star 1 Oct. 1/4 A hundred gross of Kip Leather Laces.
▪ II. kip, n.2 Sc.
Also kipp.
[Cf. Germ. (prop. LG.) kippe point, peak, tip.]
1. ‘A term denoting anything that is beaked’ (Jam.), e.g. the tip of the lower jaw of a male salmon at the time of spawning (cf. kipper n.1 and a. etym. note).
2. A sharp-pointed hill; also, a jutting point, on the side of a hill, etc. (Jam.)
1815Armstrong in Pennecuik Descr. Tweeddale 228 (Jam.) The kipps, above this, are remarkably steep and pointed hills.
attrib.1868J. Hardy in Proc. Berwick. Nat. Field Club 376 Kip rocks are numerous in Scotland, the name being applied to jutting eminences or upright points of rocks.
3. Gymnastics. (See quot. 19721.) U.S.
1909in Webster. 1967[see kip v.3]. 1972W. Vincent Gymnastic Routines for Men 123 A kip is a vigorous and rapid extension of the hip joint for the purpose of developing momentum to raise the center of gravity of the body. It may be performed on all the events in gymnastics in one form or another. Ibid., Kips may be performed forward (clockwise) or backward (counter-clockwise) with either the legs or the upper body as the moving part and the other as the stabilizing part. 1972B. Taylor et al. Olympic Gymnastics for Men & Women v. 108/2 The movement begins with the gymnast jumping to a glide swing on the low bar and continuing into a glide kip position.
▪ III. kip, n.3 slang.
[Cf. Da. kippe mean hut, low alehouse; horekippe brothel.]
1. A house of ill-fame, a brothel. Also Comb.
1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xx, My business was to attend him at auctions..to take the left hand in his chariot when not filled by another, and to assist at tattering a kip, as the phrase was, when we had a mind for a frolic. [S. Baldwin Note Tattering a kip: we have never heard this expression in England, but are told that it is frequent among the young men in Ireland. It signifies, beating up the quarters of women of ill fame.] 1922Joyce Ulysses 541, I saw him, kipkeeper! Pox and gleet vendor! 1965Brophy & Partridge Long Trail 140 Kip-shop, a brothel.
2. A common lodging-house; also a lodging or bed in such a house; hence, a bed in general; a sleep, the action of sleeping. Also (rare) kipp, and Comb. as kip-house, kip-shop.
1879Macm. Mag. XL. 501/1 So I went home, turned into kip (bed). 1883Pall Mall G. 27 Sept. 4/1 The next alternative is the common lodging-house, or ‘kip’, which, for the moderate sum of fourpence, supplies the applicant with a bed. 1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang I. 521/2 Kip house, a tramps' or vagrants' lodging-house. 1892M. Williams Round London (1893) 38 The sort of life that was led in ‘kips’, or ‘doss⁓houses’. 1893Sessions Papers Cent. Criminal Court 16 Nov. 39 He said, ‘I only came here for a kip.’.. Kip means sleep, I believe. 1908J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 14 Kipp, a lodging house. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 136 Kip: A sleep. Rest. A bed. A hammock, e.g., ‘To do a kip—to have a sleep.’ 1932Fortn. Rev. Mar. 325 The jake drinker's..earning capacity is nil, and if he has no lair of his own there is the ‘doss house’ or ‘kip shop’. 1936J. Curtis Gilt Kid i. 12 He had spent a few nights in kip-shops. 1938― They drive by Night ix. 103, I got to have a rest. I ain't had no kip. 1943M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 18 Like the Professor, Harry was ‘partial to a kip’. 1946Penguin New Writing XXVIII. 123 Conditions under which the transport drivers work, of their cafés and kip-houses. 1962Observer 11 Mar. 34/3 (caption) Dossers at a London kip-house. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 78, I had to stay with the captain..while the other lucky sods settled down for a brief kip.
▪ IV. kip, n.4 Coal-mining.
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining Terms, Kip (N.), a level or gently sloping roadway going outbye at the extremity of an engine plane, upon which the full tubs stand ready for being sent up the shaft.
▪ V. kip, n.5
Also kipp.
A local name for a tern.
1802–3in Col. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 358 Kipps..5. [Note, A kipp is a genus of tern peculiar to the vicinity of Romney.] 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds, Common Tern..also called..Kip.
▪ VI. kip, n.6 Austral. and N.Z.|kɪp|
[Origin unknown.]
A small piece of wood from which pennies are spun in the game of two-up.
1898Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Dec. Red Page/2 The kip is the piece of wood used in ‘two-up’, otherwise pitch and toss. 1933Ibid. 5 July 20/1, I see the pennies in the air, The outstretched hand that holds the kip. 1945[see bat n.2 3 e]. 1948V. Palmer Golconda xxx. 250 He [was] ..becoming more convinced every day that his whole future lay in winning the [Parliamentary] seat. At first the idea had been hardly more than a toss of the kip to him; now it was woven into his daily fantasies. 1964A. Wykes Gambling iii. 62 In this game [sc. two-up], two pennies are placed on a flat stick (called the ‘kip’) and are thrown into the air by the ‘spinner’.
▪ VII. kip, n.7 Engin. orig. U.S.|kɪp|
[Prob. f. kilo- + pound n.1]
A unit of force equal to the weight of 1,000 lb., used in expressing loads.
1915H. R. Thayer Struct. Design II. vi. 87 Shear in kips. [Note] 1 Kip = 1000 lbs. Ibid. 250 Maximum shear 110 kips. 1949S. Butterworth Struct. Analysis ii. 30 The actual sway force is 3 kips. 1959L. C. Urquhart Civil Engin. Handbk. (ed. 4) v. 45 The panel load on the upper lateral system is 25 × 150 = 3,750 lb = 3·75 kips. 1962Engineering 8 June 746/3 Each of these pavement designs could be expected to carry a million applications of the 18 kip axle load..before serviceability dropped to 2·5.
▪ VIII. kip, n.8|kɪp|
[Thai.]
The basic monetary unit of Laos.
1955Britannica Bk. Year 265/1 The Laotian unit of currency had its name changed from piastre to kip, without any effect on its purchasing power. 1959Economist 24 Jan. 305/2 The kip has been devalued. 1965Ibid. 20 Nov. p. xxxvi/1 An indelible public impression of foreign exchange dealers..inhabiting a rarefied world of eight-ball arbitrage and private jokes about the baht, the kip and the won.
▪ IX. † kip, v.1 Obs.
Forms: 3–4 kippe, 4 kip, kyp, 4–5 kyppe; pa. tense 3 kypte, 3–4 kipte, kipt, 4 kyppid.
[ME. kippen: cf. ON. kippa to snatch, tug, pull; also MDu. kippen to catch, grip, G. dial. (Swiss) kippen to steal, ‘prig’.]
trans. To take hold of, take in the hand, seize, snatch, catch.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 3164 Ðo was non biging of al egipte lich-les, so maniȝe dead ðor kipte. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 2667 ‘Nimeþ ȝoure sexes’, & is men þer wiþ Echon Kipte hor longe kniues. c1300Havelok 1050 He..kipte up þat heui ston. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1510 Kyppe kowpes in honde kyngez to serue. c1400Sege Jerus. (E.E.T.S.) 27/478 Cayphas of þe kyst kyppid a rolle & radde. c1440Promp. Parv. 276/1 Kyppyn, idem quod hynton.
b. ? absol. or intr.
c1460Towneley Myst. xii. 253 Be God, he bot syppys, begylde thou art; Behold how he kyppys. Ibid. xiii. 557 Any lord myght hym haue This chyld to his son. When he wakyns he kyppys, that ioy is to se.
¶ In many passages, kip, kipte, appear to be = kepe, kepte, from keep v.
c1300Beket 1841 That was signe of his baner, for other ne kipte he non [S. Eng. Leg. I. 158/1805 kepte]. c1305St. Dunstan 64 in E.E.P. (1862) 36 He ne kipte of hem non hure. c1311Pol. Songs (Camden) 152 Thus y kippe ant cacche caresful colde. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 182 Togidir I rede we kip. c1340Cursor M. 3079 (Trin.) Whenne [Ismael] hadde good elde kipte he spoused a wif.
Hence ˈkipping vbl. n.; also attrib., as in kipping-line, ? some kind of fishing line; cf. kip-.
c1440Promp. Parv. 276/1 Kyppynge, or hyntynge (K., P. hentynge), raptus. c1689Depred. Clan Campbell (1816) 104 Ane long fishing lyne..and three kipping lynes.
▪ X. kip, v.2 slang.|kɪp|
[f. kip n.3]
intr. To go to bed, sleep. Also, to lie down. So ˈkipping vbl. n.; also attrib., as kipping-house, a lodging-house.
1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang I. 522/1 Kip, to (popular and thieves), to sleep or lodge. 1899C. Rook Hooligan Nights i. 10 Next door..that's where me and my muvver kipped when I was a nipper. 1919Athenæum 1 Aug. 695/2 ‘To kip’ is to go to bed—or what serves for a bed. 1925E. Jervis 25 Yrs. in Six Prisons xix. 243, I used to conduct services in the ‘kippin'-'aases’, or common lodging-houses. 1929J. B. Priestley Good Companions i. iv. 116 Yes, we'll have to kip down for an hour or two, Annie. 1938J. Curtis They drive by Night iv. 46 I'm kipping here tonight and all. 1939Airman's Gaz. Dec., This will be very useful if you forced-land and have to kip out in a field. 1961New Statesman 26 May 830/3 Nancy..set her persuasive charms to work to get Billy, Bob and Nick a free sky-sheltered bench to kip on. 1973Weekly News (Glasgow) 11 Aug. 14/4 A driver whose van broke down near Bristol, decided to kip down in the driver's seat.
▪ XI. kip, v.3 Gymnastics. U.S.|kɪp|
[f. kip n.2 3.]
intr. To perform a kip.
1909in Webster. 1967Loken & Willoughby Compl. Bk. Gymnastics (ed. 2) ii. 12 Go to the bridge from the kip position on back of the shoulders using the kipping action. |