kip
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Mr Knipes said he had been surviving on "five hours' kip" due to being in such high demand over the past few days.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024
A 30% depreciation in the Lao currency, the kip, has worsened those woes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
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
“I’d be happy to get a sleeping bag and kip under the railway arches if it meant I could leave this place,” he said.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2018
I mounted the bar with a kip and swung myself up to the handstand.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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
Suddenly another change came over her features, and her full red kips trembled as with suppressed emotion.
From Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter by Brown, William Wells
Says 'e's got some kind o' water wot kips hun' from growink hold, My heye! strikes me if 'e 'ad, 'e wouldn't bein' sellin' soap 'bout 'ere.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various
Rosemarie, it kips on tellin' dat you're all de worl' to me!
From By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by MacKay, Angus
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 Thackeray, William Makepeace
It was oriental luxury after Bully-Grenay and the trenches, and for a wonder nobody had a word of "grousing" over "kipping" on the bare floor.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
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 Holmes, Robert Derby
