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Meanings of kip in English

Portuguese
tirar uma soneca
Catalan
dormir
Spanish
dormir

Be asleep.

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tirar uma soneca
Spanish
kilolibra-fuerza

Imperial unit of force.

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kilolibra-fuerza

A short period of sleep, especially one during the day time.

A gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright.

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Examples for "nap"
Examples for "nap"
1
I can believe it; I needed a nap after reading 40 pages.
The Guardian
2
However, this nap and the following ones were not influenced by endotoxin.
Pubmed
3
If it's a boulder problem, go take a nap in the forest.
Climbing Magazine
4
No, the longer Opals nap lasted, the better for everyone, especially her.
Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
5
He confronted Del that evening, after he had taken a long nap.
Shadowland
1
Mostly, I doze; it seems years since the bliss of actual sleep.
Anno Dracula
2
I could doze in a chair in the barroom for that matter.
Mischievous Maid Faynie
3
A few minutes later footsteps woke him out of a light doze.
Ghost Story
4
He dropped his eyelids in assent, and went off in a doze.
Wayside Courtships
5
In fact, she wanted to do nothing but doze by the fire.
Ruthless
1
If you want a good snooze watch the film version of Watchmen.
The Irish Times
2
Alarm lets you set multiple wake times and offers a snooze function.
Wired
3
Rather than calling the Garda, you snooze on until you arrive home.
The Irish Times
4
You see, I had quite a snooze up there in the air.
Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane; Or, Daring Adventures over the...
5
I cannot sleep in the mornings; I cannot snooze peacefully until midday.
The Girl on the Train
1
By the way, there is good news for siesta or powernap lovers.
BBC
2
Background: Several studies have assessed the association between siesta and cardiovascular outcomes.
Pubmed
3
The whole population of the place was indulging in a noonday siesta.
She and Allan
4
We happened to reach it when the prisoners were having a siesta.
A Journey Through France in War Time
5
Sometimes I need to take my little siesta for about an hour.
Reuters
1
It usually comes when she is taking what she calls forty winks.
On the Firing Line
2
Later, maybe, when I've had my grog, I'll take my forty winks-
Lewis Rand
3
Run away, and think of me as enjoying my forty winks.
Aunt Judith: The Story of a Loving Life
4
Take forty winks, you poor child, it will freshen you up.
Nightfall
5
What the hell were you doing back there, catching forty winks?
The skin trade
Usage of kip in English
1
Why is getting a good kip such a neglected and guilty pleasure?
The Irish Times
2
I let him kip on my floor but he took my futon.
Number9Dream
3
And is their then chief bottle-washer Patrick Cosgrave still having a kip?
The Irish Times
4
They ate the whole jankx, and most of the kip as well.
The darkness before the dawn
5
Percy Clocklan, keeper of the kip who farted on this spot, R.I.P.
The ginger man
6
Some people don't know what that means, so they call it a kip.
The Irish Times
7
It doesn't matter how much I tidy, the house is always a kip.
The Irish Times
8
If you struggle to get a decent kip each night, you're not alone.
News.com.au
9
We figured that we would get to kip while the kipping was good.
A Yankee in the Trenches
10
Let 'em eat their dinners and catch a bit of kip.
Dragonshadow
11
Then you go out to the barnyard there, and call 'kip, kip, kip.'
He Fell in Love with His Wife
12
I told the manager to stuff his kip up his hole.
The ginger man
13
Exhaustion came over me in a wave, so I thought I'd kip down here.
Report for Murder
14
Meester Radway he spik dat we kip off dat marsh w'en he mak' cole.
The Blazed Trail
15
She was so strong that Kip's weight was no problem for her.
The black prism
16
Master Danavis started to say something, then saw that Kip was serious.
The black prism
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Kip through the time