kip
noun/kɪp/
/kɪp/
[uncountable, countable, usually singular] (British English, informal)- sleep
- I must get some kip.
- Why don't you have a quick kip?
- Try to catch some kip while you can.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + kip- catch
- get
- have
- …
- an hour’s, a night’s, etc. kip
Word Originmid 18th cent. (in the sense ‘brothel’): perhaps related to Danish kippe ‘hovel, tavern’.Definitions on the go
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