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kipper

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/Part of speech nounSorted eikpprStarts with KEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. salted and smoked herring

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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