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kip
noun- sleep; a period of sleep UK, 1893
Following the sense as “bed”. - [H]e’d that moment got up from a feather bed after eight hours’ solid kip[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 39, 1962
- Have a bit of a kip, now, Tom. — Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, p. 50, 1974
- a bed US, 1859
- No Hinky Dink, no Pendergast caters to him, gives him free beer and rot-gut or a kip in the flop on the joint. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 30, 1951
- “And that dinge Ira, I suppose, off in the kip someplace!” — Stephen Longstreet, The Flesh Peddlers, p. 197, 1962
- “He may be lousy in the kip. You’re going to have a trial run first, aren’t you?” — Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, p. 107, 1966
- an undesirable place; a place that is dirty or disordered IRELAND
- It was a terrible kip, said Jimmy Sr. — Roddy Doyle, The Van, p. 274, 1991
- a small, narrow bat of wood used to toss the coins in a game of two-up AUSTRALIA, 1887
Origin unknown. The English Dialect Dictionary records kep (to thrown up into the air, to throw up a ball and catch it), which may be connected. - The technique seemed to be to turn the wrist slightly but sharply just as the coins were leaving the “kip”. — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 25, 1972
▶ on the kip
asleep US- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 117, 1950
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