kip

1 sleep; "roused him from his kip"

2 the basic unit of money in Laos

3 a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an errect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright [syn: upstart] v : be asleep [syn: sleep, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's] [ant: wake] [also: kipping, kipped]

English

Pronunciation

• , /kɪp/, /kIp/

  Rhymes with: -ɪp

Etymology 1

Noun

1. In the context of "colloquial|informal": Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze, siesta.
   • I’m just going for my afternoon kip.
2. Piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
3. Very untidy house or room.
4. A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons) or sometimes equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
5. In the context of "gymnastics": A move or maneuver from below the equipment to above it.

Translations

Verb

1. To sleep.
   • Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed.

Translations

Etymology 2

From ກີບ.

Noun

1. The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭.

Translations

Croatian

Etymology

From kép.

Noun

1. Statue.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• /kɪp/

Noun

1. Hen, chicken.

1. Kip, currency in Laos.

Synonyms

• sense chicken hen, kieken, hoender

Slovene

Noun

1. statue

Turkish

Noun

1. form

You may also be looking for Kipp.

Kip may refer to any of the following:

• Lao kip, the currency of Laos
• Kip (unit), a unit of force or mass
• Kip, Inverclyde, a village in Scotland
• Kip-up, an acrobatic maneuver used in martial arts and gymnastics
• In trampolining, when an instructor adds height to a performers bounce by pushing on the bed with their foot
• A first aid dressing for burns, no longer manufactured
• A type of cat
• Sleeping or taking a nap in British and Australian slang
• Dump in Irish slang
• "From the top of a hill" in Old English
• Chicken in Dutch
• Kip (dance move), a move in Swing Dance

People with the name Kip:

• Kipling "Kip" Ronald Dynamite, a character in the 2004 movie Napoleon Dynamite
• Kipchoge "Kip" Keino, a Kenyan athlete.
• Kip Kinkel, an American school shooter.
• Austin H. "Kip" Kiplinger, American publisher
• Kipp Lennon, American rock musician, Venice
• Kip Miller, an American ice hockey player
• Kip Thorne, an American theoretical physicist
• Kip K.I. parashivamurthy, an Indian Engineering Professor[Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, Karnataka, India]
• Kip Wells, an American baseball player
• Kip Winger, an American rock musician, Winger

KIP may be an acronym for

• Katathym Imaginative Psychotherapy (or Guided Affective Imagery, started by Hanscarl Leuner)
• KIP1 (aka p27) stands for Kinase Inhibitor Protein 1 (which is a member of the Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor proteins family)