kipper

Meanings

Plural: kippers

Noun

salted and smoked herring
A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
A male salmon after spawning.
A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
A torpedo.
An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
A fool.
A child or young person.
The vagina.
A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).

Verb

To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
To damage or treat with smoke.
To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.
To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.
To punish by spanking or caning.
To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.
To utterly defeat or humiliate.

Adj

Out of season.
Very wide, shaped like a kipper.
lively; chipper; nimble.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

kippered herring

Scrabble Score: 14

kipper is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
kipper is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
kipper is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

kipper is a valid Words With Friends word