kipper

Example Sentences

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That game last year was rugby's equivalent of a slap across the face with a wet kipper.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2023

It was a kipper – a smoked fish – wrapped in plastic.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2019

In a speech last week to party members during his party leadership campaign, Johnson brandished a kipper fish and pointed to its freezer packaging to ridicule the absurdity of European Union regulation.

From Reuters • Jul. 23, 2019

He went to Dulwich College in London, where Ondaatje was nicknamed Kip – a reference to kipper grease.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2018

Ron gave no sign that he was aware of Percy, apart from stabbing pieces of kipper with unwonted venom.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling