Definitions for KIPS

KIPS kip

Spelling: [kip]
IPA: /kɪp/

Kips is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in KIPS (ikps).

Definitions for KIPS

noun

  1. the hide of a young or small beast.
  2. a bundle or set of such hides.
  3. a unit of weight equal to 1000 pound (453.6 kilograms).
  4. a paper money and monetary unit of Laos, equal to 100 at. Abbreviation: K.
  5. a place to sleep; bed.
  6. sleep.
  7. Also called kip-up [kip-uhp] /ˈkɪpˌʌp/ (Show IPA), kick-up. an acrobatic movement in which a person moves from a position lying on the back to a standing position with a vigorous swing of both legs coordinated with a launching push of the arms.

verb (used without object)

  1. to sleep or nap.
  2. Also, kick up. to perform a kip (often followed by up).

Origin of KIPS

1325-75; Middle English kipp Middle Dutch, Middle Low German kip pack (of hides); akin to Old Norse kippa bundle

Examples for KIPS

The heavier hides and kips are split as described under dressing leather, and then tanned right out.

From large companies, especially in uncertainty, one may hear a chorus of kips.

East Indian hides are known as kips, and are supposed to be, and should be, the hides of yearling cattle.

The crime of the inhabitants of these impure "kips," was having spoken ill of Milady, their rival.

I visited three kips there, saw eighty-four new faces, and learned something about the wages of beggars in England.

They are then packed in "kips" of thirty apiece, and put on the market.

After tanning, the kips are rounded usually into butts, shoulders and bellies, to which different finishes are given.

We kips on till us stops, same as the rest on em, an has a sleep in between.

Word Value for KIPS
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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