kipper

noun11

1. •
   A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
2. •
   (UK, informal) A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).
3. •
   (UK, slang) A torpedo.

   • As she was only crawling along I aimed my first ‘kipper’ just a fraction ahead of her bows. — 1953
4. •
   A male salmon after spawning.
5. •
   (Australia, slang) An Englishman who has moved to Australia.

   • An able seaman on a kipper warship called the Eagle. — 1946
6. •
   (Canada, slang) An English person.
7. •
   A fool.

   • Don't push so, 'Liza; you're a-knockin' my 'at off, yer silly kipper!' — 1899
8. •
   A child or young person.

   • Half-a-dozen dreadfully common young bicyclists were commenting on her discomfiture with delighted exclamations of ‘Giddy old Kipper’, ‘Sweet Seventeen’, ‘Cheero, Maudie—you'll win!’ — 1907
9. •
   (UK, slang) The vagina.
10. •
    A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.

    • Kipper-kites, aircraft engaged on convoy escort duties over the North Sea and usually giving protection to the fishing-vessels. — 1943
11. •
    (Australia) A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.

    • Around us sat ‘Kippers’, i.e. ‘hobbledehoy blacks’. — 1853

verb7

1. •
   To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.

   • There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis[…] — 1836
2. •
   To damage or treat with smoke.

   • “When I was in 23 Squadron,” Mayo said,”we had a pilot who could blow smoke through his ears.” “That doesn't make him dotty,” Goss said. “It might have kippered his brains,” Jimmy Duncan suggested. — 2011
3. •
   To utterly defeat or humiliate.

   • Were the missing crewmen kippered by a squid? — 2001
4. •
   To dry out with heat or harsh chemicals; to desiccate.

   • The beach was littered with palm-thatch umbrellas and half-naked, kippering bodies, and the Marina packed with seagoing craft of every description. — 1995
5. •
   To drink or give a drink of alcohol, especially to intoxication.

   • No man should appear at his day's labors unless well kippered. May I kipper you, madam ” — 1995
6. •
   To punish by spanking or caning.

   • Where of old, with awful mysteries and diabolic din, They “kippered” adolescents in the presence of their kin — 1902
7. •
   To lead astray or frame; to cause to get into trouble.

   • Carver had been kippered and he knew it. He'd been framed good and proper. caught redhanded. still holding on to the phone like an absolute idiot. — 2010

adjective3

1. •
   Very wide, shaped like a kipper.

   • The trousers became more flared, the ties more kipper, and, the crowning glory (at least I thought so), was thatI was the first in my department to sport a pink shirt. — 2013
2. •
   Out of season.

   • Three weeks ago 25 per cent of the salmon running were kipper salmon. — 1923
3. •
   (dialect, UK) lively; chipper; nimble.

   • There's others won't come up so kipper if they daon't easy orf a bit. — 1929

noun2

1. •
   A supporter or member of UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party).
2. •
   A type of fortune-telling cards.