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We found a great food stall on the night market which was a vege buffet for 5000 kip which is about 40p!

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  1. noun See Table at currency.
  2. noun The untanned hide of a small or young animal, such as a calf.
  3. noun A set or bundle of such hides.
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  • Hop in the back and we'll soon find you a kip-down for the night. —  ADDERS ON THE HEATH
  • A cutter too was listing idly, ready to flop over like a dog for a kip until the next tide. —  dummy 3
  • Didn't have the stomach for it That Kputkp --" she pronounced it kip-ut-kip, jerking her head toward the wailing alien's path of retreat didn't have a stomach for it either!" —  F ;SF - vol 089 issue 02 - August 1995
  • He had gone home with the purpose of joining Sarah in grabbing some kip, she having been persuaded that an attempt on her life and her part in a danger-fraught rescue mission was sufficient grounds for (for once) phoning in sick and taking the day off. —  Also by Christopher Brookmyre
  • Once back at the hostel the thrill seekers returned and were just as tired so joined Zoe and Sherri for a kip. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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  1. Thai.
  2. Middle English, bundle of animal hides, perhaps from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German.
  3. Perhaps from Danish kippe, cheap inn; akin to Old Norse -kippa (as in kornkippa, seed-corn holder) and Low German kiffe, hovel.
  4. ki(lo)- + p(ound)1.

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  1. from Middle English kippen, keppen, from Icelandic kippa, pull, snatch, = Swedish dial, kippa = Norwegian kippa, snatch, = Dutch kippen, catch, seize. Cf. kep and keep.
  2. Early modern English kyppe, prob. ‘that which is pulled or snatched off’; from kip, v.
  3. Prob. a variant of cop, as tip of top. In def. 2 (and 3) perhaps literally ‘a catch,’ from hip, v.
  4. Cf. kip.
  5. Origin obscure; cf. kipshop.
 

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