Meaning

5 senses

  1. (UK, informal)To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.

    Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed.

    pennen, schlafen, ratzen

    перекантова́тьсяperekantovátʹsja, переночева́тьperenočevátʹ, заночева́тьzanočevátʹ

  2. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, transitive)To snatch; take up hastily; filch

  3. (Northern England, dialectal, intransitive)To conduct oneself; act

  4. (intransitive)To perform the kip maneuver.

  5. (intransitive, obsolete)To hold or keep (together)

More definitions
  • be asleep

Examples

22 sentences

  1. I'm having a kip.

    Я сплю. — deniko

    deIch halte ein Nickerchen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. I'll just have a kip.

    Я просто подрімаю. — deniko

    deIch werde mal ein Nickerchen machen. — enteka

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  3. Tom is having a kip.

    Том дрімає. — deniko

    deTom hat sich kurz hingelegt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. I want to have a kip.

    ruЯ хочу вздремнуть. — odexed

    deIch möchte ein Nickerchen machen. — Esperantostern

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  5. Grandad is kipping on the couch.

    deGroßvater hält auf dem Sofa ein Nickerchen. — xtofu80

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to sleep, in a temporary, charitable, or necessary situation:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to sleep, in a temporary, charitable, or necessary situation:

Origin

1760–70, probably related to Danish kippe (“dive, hovel, cheap inn”) and Middle Low German

1760–70, probably related to Danish kippe (“dive, hovel, cheap inn”) and Middle Low German kiffe (“hovel”). From the same distant Germanic root as cove.

From Middle English kippen, from Old Norse kippa (“to pull; snatch”) or Middle Dutch kippen (“to grasp, seize, catch”). Cognate with Norwegian kippe (“to snatch”), Swedish kippa (“to snatch; jerk”); Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch”). Perhaps conflated with some senses of Middle English kepen (“to keep, observe, guard, take possession of, snatch”) (see keep).

From kip (“sleep, lie down”).

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Forms

kips, kipping, kipped, kipped
Base formkip · to kip
3rd person singularkips
Present participlekipping
Past simplekipped
Past participlekipped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theykip
he, she, itkips

Past simpleLesson

all personskipped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave kipped
he, she, ithas kipped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill kip

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

5 synonyms
crashB1
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words
Derivedkip downkip inkip outkip up

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
kinkykinshipkinsmankioskkipperkirk

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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