Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kip down

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English

Syllables
kip -down
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To sleep somewhere other than home, forced to do so by circumstances.

British usage; Slang

Usage

Inflected Forms

kips down (present, singular) kipping down (participle, present) kipped down (participle, past) kipped down (past)

Synonyms

go to bed turn in bed crawl in hit the hay hit the sack sack out go to sleep retire

Questions

What does kip down mean?
To sleep somewhere other than home, forced to do so by circumstances.

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