kipper
IPA: kˈɪpɝ
noun
- A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
- A male salmon after spawning.
- (military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
- (UK, naval slang) A torpedo.
- (Australia, slang) An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
- (Australia) A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
- A fool.
- (endearing) A child or young person.
- (UK, informal, humorous, often with capital) A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
- A surname.
- (cartomancy) A type of fortune-telling cards.
- A supporter or member of UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party).
verb
- (cooking) To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
- (by extension) To damage or treat with smoke.
- To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
- To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
- To punish by spanking or caning.
- To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
- To utterly defeat or humiliate.
adjective
- (fishing, especially of salmon) Out of season.
- (of a tie) Very wide, shaped like a kipper.
- (UK, dialect) lively; chipper; nimble.
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Examples of "kipper" in Sentences
- It has been claimed his prison nickname was "kipper".
- We had to wear our ties "kipper" style for school photos.
- "kipper" has every girl in the gallery in a tittering ecstasy.
- United Kingdom it is frequently smoked and grilled (a smoked herring is called a 'kipper').
- A kipper is a whole herring that has been split from tail to head, gutted, salted, and cold smoked.
- The Suffolk sky hangs low and heavy, and from time to time there is the smell on the air of smoking fish, like every day here is kipper day.
- Only the first-years without older siblings were wearing our ties in this "kipper" style, which immediately marked us out as targets for ridicule.
- At first they were hoping it was just the "kipper," the name London cabdrivers give the post-Christmas season, when business is slow because people are paying off their credit cards and taking it easy after the holidays.
- Winter; but being stopt that course, or lost; grow sick in fresh waters, and by degrees unseasonable, and kipper, that is, to have a bony gristle, to grow (not unlike a Hauks beak) on one of his chaps, which hinders him from feeding, and then he pines and dies.
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