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adj
Out of season.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially
Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
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adj
Very wide, shaped like a kipper.
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adj
lively; chipper; nimble.
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Usage: UK, dialectal
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name
A surname.
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noun
A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
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noun
A male salmon after spawning.
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noun
A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
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Qualifier: RAF World War II code name
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
A torpedo.
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Usage: UK, slang
Topics: government, military, naval, navy, politics, war
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noun
An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
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Usage: Australia, slang
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noun
A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
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Usage: Australia
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noun
An English person.
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Usage: Canada, slang
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noun
A fool.
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noun
A child or young person.
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Usage: endearing
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noun
The vagina.
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Usage: UK, slang
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noun
A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
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Usage: UK, humorous, informal, often
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noun
A type of fortune-telling cards.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: cartomancy, human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences
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noun
A supporter or member of UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party).
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
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Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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verb
To damage or treat with smoke.
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Usage: broadly
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verb
To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
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verb
To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
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verb
To punish by spanking or caning.
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verb
To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
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verb
To utterly defeat or humiliate.
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noun
salted and smoked herring
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Synonyms: kippered herring
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Broader terms: herring
History
From Old English cypera (“male salmon”), perhaps related to Old English coper (“reddish-brown metal”) (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip (“sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season”), from Middle English kippen (“to seize, snatch”), but OED doubts this.
Perhaps akin to Old Norse kjapt (“briskly; impetuously”), kippa ("to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English kippen (“to seize”)), kipra (“to wrinkle; draw tightly”), Norwegian kjapp (“fast; brisk”), Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”). More at kip.
Short form of UKIP + -er, influenced by kipper, the type of fish.
Across languages
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