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kipe¹

  • /ˈkaɪp/

Where it comes from

From Middle English kipe, kype, from Old English cȳpe, cȳpa (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kipǭ, *kippǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist”).

Akin to Middle Low German kīpe ("basket"; > German Low German Kiep, Kiepke (“basket”), German Kiepe (“carrying basket”)), Norwegian kaup (“wooden box; crate”).

noun kipes · kype

  1. An osier basket used for catching fish. The completed kipe looks like a crinoline made for a giantess; from the slender waist the skirts swell to a diameter of eight feet at the hem. The kipe is only the mouth to the fisherman's elaborate trap and is fixed so that it faces up-river.

kipe²

  • /ˈkaɪp/

Where it comes from

Perhaps from dialectal kip (“to snatch”).

verb kipes · kiping · kiped · kipp · kype

  1. slang To steal. Johnny imagines all manner of chrome gadgetry that he could kipe and give to his father to jazz up his ’fifty-six Ford Vicky ragtop.

    Similar: steal, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bash and grab, bone, boost, burgle, burglarize, borrow

kipe³

  • /ˈkaɪp/

noun kipes

  1. alternative Alternative spelling of kype (“upturned lower jaw of a male salmonid”).

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@misc{kipe_2026,
  title = {kipe},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kipe},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}