kip
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A 30% depreciation in the Lao currency, the kip, has worsened those woes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
Going to have a lovely kip tonight in my hospital bed.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2021
The only two living souls I saw were a couple of vulnerably housed people, using the park benches for quiet kip.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2021
That meant no lounge, no sofa to kip on for friends in need, and certainly no spare bedrooms.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2014
I mounted the bar with a kip and swung myself up to the handstand.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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He kips on couches and loses somebody's cat.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013
The technical discussions ranged from such obscure items as the tariff on kips and pig-meat to important ones concerning future trade with Australia and New Zealand.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Rosemarie, it kips on tellin' dat you're all de worl' to me!
From By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by Angus MacKay
They wun't do 'er naw 'arm, so long's she kips 'er heye on 'em....
From Voces Populi by F. Anstey
They are then packed in "kips" of thirty apiece, and put on the market.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
Thus every summer the immigrant population of Hotel House increased exponentially as incoming workers kipped on friends’ or gangmasters’ floors.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2018
I graduated from a CrossFit Kid to a CrossFit Teen, snatching and push-jerking and kipping my way through adolescence.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2023
Funniest gag Johnson: "UKIP if you want to - David Cameron's not for kipping, not unless, obviously, he's at his sister-in-law's wedding."
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2013
And as your frinds are kipping the denner, and as I've no watch to-night, I'll jist do as we used to do at Rigy.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
How we discovered that "kipping" place I can't remember.
From The Road by Jack London
When we came up, we inherited these underground shelters, and they were mighty comfortable after the kipping in the muck.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes