kipper

Example Sentences

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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

I haven't been yet done up like a kipper, have I?

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2017

He began to tear again at the half-eaten kipper.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams