kip

1. (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.IrelandUKinformal

2. (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.Examples: "I’m just going for my afternoon kip."CommonwealthIrelandUKinformal

3. (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.IrelandUKinformal

4. (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, dated) A brothel.IrelandUKdatedinformal

1. (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.Examples: "Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed."; ""Steady on, mate. How was I to know this was your gaff? I was lookin' for somewhere to kip.""; "He took off his thick black coat and threw it to Harry. "You can kip under that," he said. "Don' mind it if wriggles a bit, I think I still got a couple o' dormice in one o' the pockets.""Synonyms: crashUKinformal

1. (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filchNorthern-EnglandScotlanddialectaltransitive

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To hold or keep (together)intransitiveobsolete

3. (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; actNorthern-Englanddialectalintransitive

1. (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.nonstandardrare

1. (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.Examples: "Again Turk placed the pennies on the kip. He took his time, deliberate over the small action, held the kip for a long breathless moment, then jerked his wrist and the pennies were in the air."; "Money was laid on the floor for bets on the heads or tails finish of two pennies tossed high into the air from a small wooden kip."; "Jack discarded a length of wood, two twists of wire, his two-up kip and a spanner."Australia