kipe

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 10
Words With Friends: 11
Letters: 4

Pronunciation

/ˈkaɪp/

Definition of kipe

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

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.”

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noun

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.”
(alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of kype (“upturned lower jaw of a male salmonid”).

verb

(slang)To steal.

“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.”

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Etymology

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”).