kip
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A 30% depreciation in the Lao currency, the kip, has worsened those woes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
The only two living souls I saw were a couple of vulnerably housed people, using the park benches for quiet kip.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2021
He remembers it as "a good place to kip" that became "way bigger than it was supposed to be".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2019
If you have 30 minutes, set an alarm, lie down and kip.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2017
“Thought we’d jus’ try an’ see if they fancied a kip . . . we’ll jus’ settle ’em down in these boxes.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
He kips on couches and loses somebody's cat.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013
The technical discussions ranged from such obscure items as the tariff on kips and pig-meat to important ones concerning future trade with Australia and New Zealand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rosemarie, it kips repeatin', an' each beat is true to thee.
From By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by MacKay, Angus
Says 'e's got some kind o' water wot kips hun' from growink hold, My heye! strikes me if 'e 'ad, 'e wouldn't bein' sellin' soap 'bout 'ere.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various
Rosemarie, it kips on tellin' dat you're all de worl' to me!
From By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by MacKay, Angus
Thus every summer the immigrant population of Hotel House increased exponentially as incoming workers kipped on friends’ or gangmasters’ floors.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2018
I graduated from a CrossFit Kid to a CrossFit Teen, snatching and push-jerking and kipping my way through adolescence.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2023
Funniest gag Johnson: "UKIP if you want to - David Cameron's not for kipping, not unless, obviously, he's at his sister-in-law's wedding."
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2013
We figured that we would get to kip while the kipping was good.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
How we discovered that "kipping" place I can't remember.
From The Road by London, Jack
And as your frinds are kipping the denner, and as I've no watch to-night, I'll jist do as we used to do at Rigy.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
