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A unit of sleep, currency, or 100kg of steel — chosen by context, not logic.
means A short sleep or nap, or the place you sleep (British/Irish/Australian slang) — as in 'having a kip' or 'back to my kip.'
from Comes from Danish/Norwegian 'kippe,' meaning a hut or cheap lodging-house — the kind of rough doss-house where tired travelers crashed for the night. English borrowed it in the 1700s for a low tavern or lodging, and the meaning slid from 'the dingy place you sleep' to 'the act of sleeping' itself. The unrelated 'kip' meaning 1,000 (as in kilopound, used for steel and money) is a totally separate 20th-century American coinage — same four letters, no shared ancestry.
- nap slang
- British and Irish slang for a short sleep
- currency
- official money of Laos
- steel unit
- engineering term for 1000 pounds of force
- word origin
- sleep sense traces to Danish kippe, a hut