kips

Laotian currency units

Kips is the plural of kip, British slang for a nap or sleep: I'm going to grab a few kips this weekend.

To have a kip is to sleep, often briefly or informally.

Separately, a kip is a unit of force equal to 1,000 pounds, used in engineering.

In gymnastics, a kip is a move where you swing from a hang to a support position.

sleep

nap

Brief daytime rest

shuteye · forty winks · catnap · crash · sack out · bedtime · pillow · blanket · mattress · bed

gymnastics

bar

Drinking establishment

dismount · handstand · gymnastics · apparatus · routine · flip · momentum · grip · release · catch

currency

shilling

Former British monetary unit

denomination · exchange · Nairobi · Mombasa · East African · tender · finance · transaction · payment · value

measurement

force

Strength or compulsion

  • weightMeasure of heaviness
  • massQuantity of matter
  • loadCarried weight or burden

tonnage · unit · pound · pressure · engineering · structural · capacity · heavy · industrial

Categories
Opposites
unit magnitude (force measurement)

kipsnewtons

SI force quantities

tons

sleep/wakefulness (British slang)

kipswakefulness

State of being conscious

alertness · all-nighters · waking · consciousness · vigils

Phrases
Family

kipper, kip, kippers, kipped, kipping

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
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Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G