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Kipe

//ˈkaɪp// noun, verb, slang

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Noun

1
An osier basket used for catching fish.
"The completed kipe looks like a crinoline made for a giantess; from the slender waist the skirts swell to a diameter of eight feet at the hem. The kipe is only the mouth to the fisherman's elaborate trap and is fixed so that it faces up-river."
2
Alternative spelling of kype (“upturned lower jaw of a male salmonid”). alt-of, alternative

Verb

1
To steal. slang
"Johnny imagines all manner of chrome gadgetry that he could kipe and give to his father to jazz up his ’fifty-six Ford Vicky ragtop."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English kipe, kype, from Old English cȳpe, cȳpa (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kipǭ, *kippǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist”). Akin to Middle Low German kīpe ("basket"; > German Low German Kiep, Kiepke (“basket”), German Kiepe (“carrying basket”)), Norwegian kaup (“wooden box; crate”).

Etymology 2

Perhaps from dialectal kip (“to snatch”).

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