kipper

Example Sentences

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That game last year was rugby's equivalent of a slap across the face with a wet kipper.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2023

My Dundonian mother is pretty competitive when it comes to our traditional Christmas games – no one flips a kipper further or faster.

From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2020

This kipper, he told his audience, came from a kipper smoker on the Isle of Man — an angry kipper smoker.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2019

In a speech last week to party members during his party leadership campaign, Johnson brandished a kipper fish and pointed to its freezer packaging to ridicule the absurdity of European Union regulation.

From Reuters • Jul. 23, 2019

Oatmeal cake was a tolerable idea, but the possibility of kipper cake made them gag.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood