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nounPlural kips kɪpkɪp 1(in leather-making) the hide of a young or small animal. （皮革制造用语）小动物皮 Example sentencesExamples - Leather made from kips generally has a fine, tight fibre.
- Now with flawless tight grain kip skin leather and the best Pro Patterns, these gloves are sure to be the new industry benchmark.
- 1.1 A set or bundle of kips.
一套（或一捆）小动物皮
OriginLate Middle English: perhaps related to Middle Dutch kip, kijp 'bundle (of hides)'. Rhymesblip, chip, clip, dip, drip, equip, flip, grip, gyp, hip, lip, nip, outstrip, pip, quip, rip, scrip, ship, sip, skip, slip, snip, strip, tip, toodle-pip, trip, whip, yip, zip nounPlural kips kɪpkɪp The basic monetary unit of Laos, equal to 100 ats. 基普（老挝基本货币单位，1基普等于100阿特） Example sentencesExamples - The National Tourism Authority of Laos predicted that 743,000 visitors would bring 107 billion kip into the local economy.
- Wide fluctuations began in 1998, when the kip was valued at about 6,200 to the U.S. dollar.
- All seven men were also ordered to pay 11 million kip each as compensation to the family of the victim, said the sources.
- The value of the kip plummeted from around 800 to the dollar in 1997 to around 7,500 kip to the dollar today (it went over 10,000 at one point).
nounPlural kips kɪpkɪp US A unit of weight equal to 1,000 lb (453.6 kg). Example sentencesExamples - ‘Lower design yield strengths of forty kips per square inch for reinforcement were used for the design of exterior exposed concrete elements to account for the effects of long-term corrosion,’ explains Youssef.
- The fact is that the most common aluminum structural alloy, 6061-T6, has a minimum yield strength of 35 kips per square inch, which is almost equal to that of A36 steel.
OriginEarly 20th century: probably from ki- in kilo- + p- in pound1. nounPlural kips kɪpkɪp informal 1British A sleep or nap. 〈英〉睡觉；打盹 I might have a little kip 我可能会打个盹。 mass noun he was trying to get some kip 他想要睡一会。 Example sentencesExamples - Though you've still been on the road for four or five hours to reach the ferry port, your time clock says you are ready for some kip, so you sleep like a baby, arriving before France really wakes up, refreshed and prepared for a long drive.
- I was just trying to get a few minutes kip, so I could function with some level of intelligence the rest of the afternoon…
- So that lunchtime kip under your desk is entirely justified.
- It was all I could do to get back to work to escape the nappies, the din and get back onto night shifts where I could turn in a decent bit of kip.
- Lo and behold out of the surf popped a little critter, and he proceeded to waddle up the beach and then up the banking for a bit of kip.
- And these days I hear you can get a better night's kip on an overnight flight to Hong Kong than you do in a budget airport hotel.
- I thought to myself that a long period on a coach trying to pass out with the aid of many tins of Stella and the least comfy seats in showbiz might result in some kip.
- Finally I drifted off to sleep at about 3am, and, between then and the first mobile phone ringing at 5.45 am, I must have had, when you tot it all up, a good hour and a half's kip.
- Then I would make my way back to somewhere I could catch the coach back to Oxford, and try to get a bit of kip on the journey.
- Little surprise that a survey has found that, given the chance of an extra hour in bed, most working men would rather have a kip than make love.
- To be sure that we're going to get a decent kip every night and not be harassed by a bed partner who makes repeated attempts at foreplay.
- I feel that if I want to have a good night's kip, I shouldn't be trying to do it in the middle of the nightly entertainment zone.
- I don't want to push my luck and may just get some kip from 6pm onwards.
- After a while I found myself hit by a wave of fatigue, paranoia and depression, but an hour's kip and a wander round the shops worked wonders.
- Anyhow, if we've finished playing Juke Box Jury now, I fancy getting some kip, if you don't mind.
- But I'm not made of such stern stuff and to fortify me for the festivities I'm off to my hotel for a few hours' kip.
- That's one way to get some kip on the plane, leave your child in an airport.
- And, having murdered sleep through killing a king, Hicks shoots his wife the wintriest of smiles when she later recommends a good night's kip.
- But as anyone knows, if you lie down and have a forty minute kip in the aisle of a supermarket, the manager will think you are a mentalist and tell you to move on.
- Two hours of kip caught, that gives me precisely 24 minutes to shower, coffee, dress, tackle the bags and shadows, then jog breathlessly to work.
Synonyms nap, doze, rest, siesta, drowse, catnap - 1.1Scottish A bed.
〈主苏格兰〉床 Example sentencesExamples - I think I heard Steven Frail saying there's a virus flooring a lot of the players. Eggert puked this morning and is in his kip!
- Usually when he arrived home with his ‘AA cronies’, as Mary called them, she'd be in her kip.
Synonyms bunk, bed, bunk bed, cot, couch, hammock
2Irish An unpleasant, dirty, or sordid place. he couldn't get a start in this kip of a city 在这个肮脏的城市中他无法起步自己的事业。 Example sentencesExamples - Now the only negative thing was that we stayed the night at the top to see the famed sunrise in the morning but the hotel we stayed at was a kip and I hardly got any sleep.
- Jaysus, but what a kip it was inside Mack's cottage!
- If these reforms go through much of the countryside will go back to being a barren kip.
verbkipped, kipping, kips kɪpkɪp [no object]British informal Sleep. Example sentencesExamples - Now at this stage I was all for kipping on the floor of the family room, rather than leave my poor, unprotected wife in the hands of evil maternity ward goons.
- I was back from Germany for a few weeks and was kipping for a couple of nights on the sofa in the place that my ex-housemates were now sharing with my ex-girlfriend (we're still friendly so it wasn't a problem).
- In Japanese style, we just piled into the room and kipped on the floor, no beds, no mats, no nothing.
- Brother-in-law, by now, had already slipped out, so I had a little shut-eye myself, waking to find my beloved still kipping.
- Hi mate, you know you said I could kip over any time I'm in London?
Synonyms relax, take a rest, ease off, ease up, let up, slow down, pause, have a break, take a break, unbend, repose, laze, idle, loaf, do nothing, take time off, slack off, unwind, recharge one's batteries, be at leisure, take it easy, sit back, sit down, stand down, lounge, luxuriate, loll, slump, flop, put one's feet up, lie down, go to bed, have a nap, take a nap, nap, catnap, doze, have a siesta, take a siesta, drowse, sleep
OriginMid 18th century (in the sense 'brothel'): perhaps related to Danish kippe 'hovel, tavern'. nounPlural kips kɪpkɪp (in Australia) a small piece of wood from which coins are spun in the game of two-up. （澳大利亚）（抛双币打赌游戏的）抛币木 Example sentencesExamples - Simon placed two coins on the ‘kip’ and flicked them high in the air.
- The boxer or manager of the game sat with his coins, kips, string and money tray in the place where he could view the whole ring clearly.
OriginLate 19th century: perhaps related to Irish cipin 'small stick, dibble'. nounkipkɪp 1(in leather-making) the hide of a young or small animal. （皮革制造用语）小动物皮 Example sentencesExamples - Now with flawless tight grain kip skin leather and the best Pro Patterns, these gloves are sure to be the new industry benchmark.
- Leather made from kips generally has a fine, tight fibre.
- 1.1 A set or bundle of hides from young or small animals.
OriginLate Middle English: perhaps related to Middle Dutch kip, kijp ‘bundle (of hides)’. nounkipkɪp The basic monetary unit of Laos, equal to 100 ats. 基普（老挝基本货币单位，1基普等于100阿特） Example sentencesExamples - Wide fluctuations began in 1998, when the kip was valued at about 6,200 to the U.S. dollar.
- The value of the kip plummeted from around 800 to the dollar in 1997 to around 7,500 kip to the dollar today (it went over 10,000 at one point).
- The National Tourism Authority of Laos predicted that 743,000 visitors would bring 107 billion kip into the local economy.
- All seven men were also ordered to pay 11 million kip each as compensation to the family of the victim, said the sources.
nounkipkɪp US A unit of weight equal to 1,000 lb (453.6 kg). Example sentencesExamples - The fact is that the most common aluminum structural alloy, 6061-T6, has a minimum yield strength of 35 kips per square inch, which is almost equal to that of A36 steel.
- ‘Lower design yield strengths of forty kips per square inch for reinforcement were used for the design of exterior exposed concrete elements to account for the effects of long-term corrosion,’ explains Youssef.
OriginEarly 20th century: probably from ki- in kilo- + p- in pound. nounkipkɪp British informal 1A sleep; a nap. 〈英〉睡觉；打盹 I might have a little kip 我可能会打个盹。 he was trying to get some kip 他想要睡一会。 Example sentencesExamples - So that lunchtime kip under your desk is entirely justified.
- Lo and behold out of the surf popped a little critter, and he proceeded to waddle up the beach and then up the banking for a bit of kip.
- I thought to myself that a long period on a coach trying to pass out with the aid of many tins of Stella and the least comfy seats in showbiz might result in some kip.
- Though you've still been on the road for four or five hours to reach the ferry port, your time clock says you are ready for some kip, so you sleep like a baby, arriving before France really wakes up, refreshed and prepared for a long drive.
- Then I would make my way back to somewhere I could catch the coach back to Oxford, and try to get a bit of kip on the journey.
- To be sure that we're going to get a decent kip every night and not be harassed by a bed partner who makes repeated attempts at foreplay.
- I don't want to push my luck and may just get some kip from 6pm onwards.
- It was all I could do to get back to work to escape the nappies, the din and get back onto night shifts where I could turn in a decent bit of kip.
- And, having murdered sleep through killing a king, Hicks shoots his wife the wintriest of smiles when she later recommends a good night's kip.
- I was just trying to get a few minutes kip, so I could function with some level of intelligence the rest of the afternoon…
- That's one way to get some kip on the plane, leave your child in an airport.
- Little surprise that a survey has found that, given the chance of an extra hour in bed, most working men would rather have a kip than make love.
- But as anyone knows, if you lie down and have a forty minute kip in the aisle of a supermarket, the manager will think you are a mentalist and tell you to move on.
- And these days I hear you can get a better night's kip on an overnight flight to Hong Kong than you do in a budget airport hotel.
- Two hours of kip caught, that gives me precisely 24 minutes to shower, coffee, dress, tackle the bags and shadows, then jog breathlessly to work.
- Anyhow, if we've finished playing Juke Box Jury now, I fancy getting some kip, if you don't mind.
- But I'm not made of such stern stuff and to fortify me for the festivities I'm off to my hotel for a few hours' kip.
- Finally I drifted off to sleep at about 3am, and, between then and the first mobile phone ringing at 5.45 am, I must have had, when you tot it all up, a good hour and a half's kip.
- After a while I found myself hit by a wave of fatigue, paranoia and depression, but an hour's kip and a wander round the shops worked wonders.
- I feel that if I want to have a good night's kip, I shouldn't be trying to do it in the middle of the nightly entertainment zone.
Synonyms nap, doze, rest, siesta, drowse, catnap - 1.1Scottish A bed.
〈主苏格兰〉床 Example sentencesExamples - I think I heard Steven Frail saying there's a virus flooring a lot of the players. Eggert puked this morning and is in his kip!
- Usually when he arrived home with his ‘AA cronies’, as Mary called them, she'd be in her kip.
Synonyms bunk, bed, bunk bed, cot, couch, hammock
verbkipkɪp [no object]British informal Sleep. they kipped down for the night 他们睡下来过夜。 Example sentencesExamples - Brother-in-law, by now, had already slipped out, so I had a little shut-eye myself, waking to find my beloved still kipping.
- In Japanese style, we just piled into the room and kipped on the floor, no beds, no mats, no nothing.
- Now at this stage I was all for kipping on the floor of the family room, rather than leave my poor, unprotected wife in the hands of evil maternity ward goons.
- Hi mate, you know you said I could kip over any time I'm in London?
- I was back from Germany for a few weeks and was kipping for a couple of nights on the sofa in the place that my ex-housemates were now sharing with my ex-girlfriend (we're still friendly so it wasn't a problem).
Synonyms relax, take a rest, ease off, ease up, let up, slow down, pause, have a break, take a break, unbend, repose, laze, idle, loaf, do nothing, take time off, slack off, unwind, recharge one's batteries, be at leisure, take it easy, sit back, sit down, stand down, lounge, luxuriate, loll, slump, flop, put one's feet up, lie down, go to bed, have a nap, take a nap, nap, catnap, doze, have a siesta, take a siesta, drowse, sleep
OriginMid 18th century (in the sense ‘brothel’): perhaps related to Danish kippe ‘hovel, tavern’. nounkipkɪp (in Australia) a small piece of wood from which coins are spun in the game of two-up. （澳大利亚）（抛双币打赌游戏的）抛币木 Example sentencesExamples - Simon placed two coins on the ‘kip’ and flicked them high in the air.
- The boxer or manager of the game sat with his coins, kips, string and money tray in the place where he could view the whole ring clearly.
OriginLate 19th century: perhaps related to Irish cipin ‘small stick, dibble’. |