Definitions for Kipper

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Kipper kip·per

Spelling: [kip-er]

IPA: /ˈkɪp ər/

Kipper is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in Kipper (eikppr).

Definitions for Kipper

noun

1. a fish, especially a herring, that has been cured by splitting, salting, drying, and smoking.
2. this method of curing fish.
3. a male salmon during or after the spawning season.
4. a young male Aborigine, usually 14 to 16 years old, who has recently undergone his tribal initiation rite.

verb (used with object)

1. to cure (herring, salmon, etc.) by splitting, salting, drying and smoking.

Origin of Kipper

before 1000; Middle English kypre, Old English cypera spawning salmon, apparently derivative of cyperen of copper, i.e., copper-colored

Examples for Kipper

A northern term for a female fish, as kipper is for the male.

"kipper's" rig-out must have totted up to a tidy little sum.

kipper is also applied to salmon which has undergone the process of kippering (which see).

He meditated profoundly over his kipper and his kidney and bacon.

This can easily be mistaken for a kipper, the smoked herring that is on the breakfast menus of many British hotels.

Then he had a kipper—not out of a tin, either—and bacon and eggs and toast and marmalade.

"kipper" never touched a penny of her money, but if he had been her agent at twenty-five per cent.

Be that as it may, kipper was no favourite in the country of his exile.

But while we are discussing politics kipper and the stagbeetle are still in danger.

I'd been there about a fortnight, and was feeling pretty sick of it, when in walked young "kipper."