kipper

Example Sentences

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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

It was a kipper – a smoked fish – wrapped in plastic.

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

I haven't been yet done up like a kipper, have I?

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2017

Ron gave no sign that he was aware of Percy, apart from stabbing pieces of kipper with unwonted venom.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling