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Meanings of kipper in English

Catalan
arengada fumada
Spanish
kipper

Salted and smoked herring.

arengada fumada

A large salted and smoked herring.

To expose food to the smoke of wood fires in order to preserve it.

Usage of kipper in English
1
A kipper smokehouse in Whitby is under threat after a cliffside subsided.
BBC
2
Sometimes, you come down to a kipper breakfast and she's upped stakes.'
Anno Dracula
3
Boris Johnson's kipper is very much a red herring, Brussels says.
The Irish Times
4
Presumably he recognised that Miliband had been stitched up like the proverbial kipper.
The Guardian
5
Meanwhile the frying pan with a kipper in it turned over.
The new yorker
6
Taylor had chestnut hair, a kipper tie and a boy-next-door look.
The Guardian
7
Salah took just three minutes to do Hornets defender Miguel Britos like a kipper.
The South African
8
Inquiries as to the locality of the kipper fishing-grounds should be addressed to our contemporary.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917
9
Perhaps now they draw the kipper across the path.
Men of Affairs
10
Biffy finished his last mouthful of kipper, wondering if the Beta generally teased at table.
Timeless
11
Edgar Barcenas curled wide after wing-back Ashley Young was done like a kipper by the touchline.
The South African
12
Both visitors were curious to meet Miss Sekhmet, who sat in glorious dignity nibbling a kipper.
Imprudence
13
His father glanced up from his half-eaten kipper.
The street philosopher
14
On other occasions one dreams of a kipper.
The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
15
Have you got a kipper in your nest?
The Irish Times
16
Follow on to the 'Igh Court of Eggs and Bacon; 'ave a kipper from the old firm!
Manalive
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Kipper through the time