kip
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A 30% depreciation in the Lao currency, the kip, has worsened those woes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
It's not conducive to a proper night's kip, is it?
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2021
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
After all, even those of us who lack soundproof windows and hop-infused pillows still appreciate a good night’s kip.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2016
“He wants a kip, and his bar’s turned into a railway station.”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" 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
They are then packed in "kips" of thirty apiece, and put on the market.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
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
They wun't do 'er naw 'arm, so long's she kips 'er heye on 'em....
From Voces Populi by F. Anstey
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 Robert Derby Holmes
How we discovered that "kipping" place I can't remember.
From The Road by Jack London
The agreement is that kipping, or dossing, or sleeping, is the hardest problem they have to face, harder even than that of food.
From The People of the Abyss by Jack London
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