1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 236/1 Kyppe of lambe a furre [no Fr.].

1617 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 353 A kipp to make a cover for the charter.

1776 Excise-book in Dorset County Chron. (1881) 2 June [Kinds of hides] sheep and lamb, butts and backs, calves and kips.

1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 146 Kips, consisting of the younger growth of the above animals [oxen, horses, cows, bulls, and buffaloes].

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 24 The tanners call the skins of young animals kips. The skins of full-grown cattle of small breed are also so called.

a1882 H. C. Kendall Poems (1886) 192 A hero in moleskin and kip.

?a1527 in Regulations & Establishm. Househ. Earl of Northumberland (1905) 843 ij Keippe and a half [of lamb skin] after xxx Skynnes in a Kepe.

1612 A. Hopton Concordancy of Yeares 164 The skins of Goats are numbered by the Kippe, which is 50.

a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 67 Skins of Goats. In 1 Kippe, 50 Skins.

c1890 Correspondent A kip of chamois skins is now 30.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Kip-leather, the tanned hide of a stirk.

1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 56 Calf Skins and Kip Skins, in the Hair, not tanned.

1844 Port Phillip Patriot (Melbourne) 25 July 3/6 Half ton Hobart Town kip leather.

1891 Auckland Star 1 Oct. 1/4 A hundred gross of Kip Leather Laces.

1906 A. Watt Leather Manuf. (ed. 5) xxx. 376 No amount of work and material will, however, make a badly split kip butt equal in appearance and value to the shaved article.

1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1967 N. C. Loken & R. J. 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.

1972 W. 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.

1972 W. Vincent Gymnastic Routines for Men 123 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.

1972 B. Taylor et al. Olympic Gymnastics 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.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. i. 12 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.]

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 517 I saw him, kipkeeper! Pox and gleet vendor!

1931 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 (ed. 3) 325 Kip-shop, a brothel.

1879 Macmillan's Mag. 40 501/1 So I went home, turned into kip (bed).

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 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.

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 521/2 Kip house, a tramps' or vagrants' lodging-house.

1892 M. Williams Round London i. v. 60 The sort of life that was led in ‘kips’, or ‘doss-houses’.

1893 Sessions Papers Cent. Criminal Court 16 Nov. 39 He said, ‘I only came here for a kip.’.. Kip means sleep, I believe.

1908 J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 14 Kipp, a lodging house.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 136 Kip: A sleep. Rest. A bed. A hammock, e.g., ‘To do a kip—to have a sleep.’

1932 Fortn. 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’.

1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid i. 12 He had spent a few nights in kip-shops.

1938 ‘J. Curtis’ They drive by Night ix. 103 I got to have a rest. I ain't had no kip.

1943 M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 18 Like the Professor, Harry was ‘partial to a kip’.

1946 Penguin New Writing 28 123 Conditions under which the transport drivers work, of their cafés and kip-houses.

1962 Observer 11 Mar. 34/3 (caption) Dossers at a London kip-house.

1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 78 I had to stay with the captain..while the other lucky sods settled down for a brief kip.

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 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.

1802–3 in Col. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 358 Kipps..5. [Note, A kipp is a genus of tern peculiar to the vicinity of Romney.]

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds Common Tern..also called..Kip.

1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Dec. Red Page/2 The kip is the piece of wood used in ‘two-up’, otherwise pitch and toss.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 July 20/1 I see the pennies in the air, The outstretched hand that holds the kip.

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. ix. 176 The small piece of board upon which the two pennies are rested for spinning is called the kip, stick, bat or kiley.

1948 V. 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.

1964 A. 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’.

1915 H. R. Thayer Struct. Design II. vi. 87 Shear in kips. [Note] 1 Kip = 1000 lbs.

1915 H. R. Thayer Struct. Design II. vi. 250 Maximum shear 110 kips.

1949 S. Butterworth Struct. Anal. ii. 30 The actual sway force is 3 kips.

1959 L. 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.

1962 Engineering 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.

1955 Britannica Bk. Year 265/1 The Laotian unit of currency had its name changed from piastre to kip, without any effect on its purchasing power.

1959 Economist 24 Jan. 305/2 The kip has been devalued.

1965 Economist 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.

c1300 Beket 1841 That was signe of his baner, for other ne kipte he non [S. Eng. Leg. I. 158/1805 kepte].

c1305 St. Dunstan 64 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 36 He ne kipte of hem non hure.

c1311 Pol. Songs (Camden) 152 Thus y kippe ant cacche caresful colde.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 182 Togidir I rede we kip.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 3079 Whenne he [sc. Ishmael] hadde good elde kipte he spoused a wif egipte.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 276/1 Kyppynge, or hyntynge (K., P. hentynge), raptus.

c1686 Depredations Clan Campbell (1816) 104 Ane long fishing lyne..and three kipping lynes.

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 522/1 Kip, to (popular and thieves), to sleep or lodge.

1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights i. 10 Next door..that's where me and my muvver kipped when I was a nipper.

1916 Daily Mail 1 Nov. 4/4 ‘Kip’ (to sleep, from ‘kip-house’, a low-class lodging-house).

1919 Athenæum 1 Aug. 695/2 ‘To kip’ is to go to bed—or what serves for a bed.

1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. iv. 116 Yes, we'll have to kip down for an hour or two, Annie.

1931 W. V. Tilsley Other Ranks 15 They kipped together and ate together.

1939 Airman's Gaz. Dec. 5/2 This will be very useful if you forced-land and have to kip out in a field.

1961 New 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.

1973 Weekly News (Glasgow) 11 Aug. 14/4 A driver whose van broke down near Bristol, decided to kip down in the driver's seat.

1925 E. Jervis Twenty-five Years in Six Prisons xix. 243 I used to conduct services in the ‘kippin'-'aases’, or common lodging-houses.

1938 ‘J. Curtis’ They drive by Night iv. 46 I'm kipping here tonight and all.

1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1967 N. C. Loken & R. J. 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.