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kipper
1[ kip-er ]
noun
- a fish, especially a herring, that has been cured by splitting, salting, drying, and smoking.
- this method of curing fish.
- a male salmon during or after the spawning season.
verb (used with object)
- to cure (herring, salmon, etc.) by splitting, salting, drying and smoking.
kipper
2[ kip-er ]
noun
- a young Aboriginal male, usually 14 to 16 years old, who has recently undergone his tribal initiation rite.
kipper
1/ ˈkɪpə /
noun
- informal.an adult who cannot afford to move away from his or her parents' home
kipper
2/ ˈkɪpə /
noun
- a fish, esp a herring, that has been cleaned, salted, and smoked
- a male salmon during the spawning season
- archaic.an Englishman
verb
- tr to cure (a fish, esp a herring) by salting and smoking
kipper
3/ ˈkɪpə /
noun
- a native Australian youth who has completed an initiation rite
Word History and Origins
Origin of kipper1
Origin of kipper2
Word History and Origins
Origin of kipper1
Origin of kipper2
Origin of kipper3
Example Sentences
This can easily be mistaken for a kipper, the smoked herring that is on the breakfast menus of many British hotels.
I'd been there about a fortnight, and was feeling pretty sick of it, when in walked young "Kipper."
"Kipper" never touched a penny of her money, but if he had been her agent at twenty-five per cent.
Then he had a kipper—not out of a tin, either—and bacon and eggs and toast and marmalade.
Be that as it may, Kipper was no favourite in the country of his exile.
Only the other day I called her 'a saucy little kipper,' and the way she went on, anybody would have thought I'd insulted her.
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