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
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
I mounted the bar with a kip and swung myself up to the handstand.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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 on tellin' dat you're all de worl' to me!
From By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by Angus MacKay
Rosemarie, it kips repeatin', an' each beat is true to thee.
From By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by Angus MacKay
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
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
It was oriental luxury after Bully-Grenay and the trenches, and for a wonder nobody had a word of "grousing" over "kipping" on the bare floor.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes
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 William Makepeace Thackeray
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
