Meaning of Kipper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
   UK, humorous, informal, often
2. A surname.
3. A type of fortune-telling cards.
   countable, uncountable
4. A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
5. A supporter or member of UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party).
   countable, uncountable
6. A male salmon after spawning.
7. A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
8. A torpedo.
   UK, slang
9. An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
   Australia, slang
10. A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
    Australia
11. A fool.
12. A child or young person.
    endearing
13. The vagina.
    UK, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Kipper, I discovered, was airman's slang for a fishing boat. The chief function of this particular station was the escorting of convoys and fishing fleets, and the section which had the latter duty to perform was known as the ‘Kipper Patrol’.”

“Kipper-kites, aircraft engaged on convoy escort duties over the North Sea and usually giving protection to the fishing-vessels.”

“As she was only crawling along I aimed my first ‘kipper’ just a fraction ahead of her bows.”

“I evaluate its firing power at eighteen torpedoes—I think kipper is a distressing piece of naval slang—in thirty minutes.”

“'Fancy running the risk of getting a kipper [a torpedo] to go with his grub.'”

“1 Kipper, Englishman”

“An able seaman on a kipper warship called the Eagle.”

“Quite often they [sc. English immigrants in Australia] are referred to as Kippers.”

“You kippers—no guts and two faces—are only strong under the armpits... What about the east of Suez caper, eh?”

“With these weapons the natives invest their young men at the age of from fourteen to sixteen years... These young men are then called kippers, and for the first time enjoy the privilege of taking an active part in the fight.”

“Around us sat ‘Kippers’, i.e. ‘hobbledehoy blacks’.”

“A ceremony at which the young men..receive the rank of warriors and are henceforth called Kippers.”

“Don't push so, 'Liza; you're a-knockin' my 'at off, yer silly kipper!'”

“'Marriage during the Emergency isn't for me. I think of Alyson Carew. But carrying on with another officer's wife, well, separated wife; won't it affect my career?' 'Don't be a silly kipper.'”

“Why didn't he go to the May Island, the silly kipper that he was, and bring us all back a nice wee lass instead of you, you nasty brat!'”

“Half-a-dozen dreadfully common young bicyclists were commenting on her discomfiture with delighted exclamations of ‘Giddy old Kipper’, ‘Sweet Seventeen’, ‘Cheero, Maudie—you'll win!’”

“If you're enterprizing enough to climb one of the trees christened by usage ‘The Kipper's Tree’, which hardly needs to be translated into plainer terms.”

“A chap who has got duck's disease is most often labelled ‘Tich’... Alternatively: ankle biter,..kipper, microbe, midge, [etc.].”

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