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Kip is an informal British and Irish word for sleep — 'I need a kip' means 'I need to sleep,' and 'to kip' or 'to kip down' means to sleep, often somewhere unusual, like on a friend's sofa. This word is casual and mostly used in the UK and Ireland — Americans usually wouldn't say it. (Separately, 'kip' is also the name of the money used in , but that's a completely different, unrelated word.)
(英式口語)小睡、睡覺
原始詞典資料22 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Kipname
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A diminutive of the male given name Kipling.
kipnoun詞源 1/kɪp/
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The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
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A bundle or set of such hides.
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obsoleteA unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
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The leather made from such hide.
- 'Stockings, madam? Shoes?' 'Yes, your Honor — both.' 'Yarn, perhaps? Morocco?' 'Yarn, your Honor. And kip.'
kipnoun詞源 2/kɪp/
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informalA place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
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informalSleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- I’m just going for my afternoon kip.
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informalA very untidy house or room.
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datedinformalA brothel.
kipverb詞源 2/kɪp/
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informalTo sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
- Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed.
- "Steady on, mate. How was I to know this was your gaff? I was lookin' for somewhere to kip."
kipverb詞源 3/kɪp/
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dialectalTo snatch; take up hastily; filch
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obsoleteTo hold or keep (together)
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dialectalTo conduct oneself; act
kipnoun詞源 4/kɪp/
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A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
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A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
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rareA unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
kipnoun詞源 5/kɪp/
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The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
kipnoun詞源 6/kɪp/
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gamesA piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
- Again Turk placed the pennies on the kip. He took his time, deliberate over the small action, held the kip for a long breathless moment, then jerked his wrist and the pennies were in the air.
- Money was laid on the floor for bets on the heads or tails finish of two pennies tossed high into the air from a small wooden kip.
kipnoun詞源 7/kɪp/
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gymnasticshobbieslifestyleA basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
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A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
kipverb詞源 7/kɪp/
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gymnasticshobbieslifestyleTo perform the kip maneuver.
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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。