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Kipper


Definition:

  • (n.) A salmon after spawning.
  • (n.) A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.
  • (v. t.) To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.
  • (a.) Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Downstairs I had black coffee, kippers, and brown toast in the breakfast room.
  • (2) "But it is true that I was poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury.
  • (3) Each week, as another Kipper gets done for some kind of insanity – a £3,000 restaurant bill in Margate?
  • (4) I did.” He’s done you up like a … well, a proverbial kipper.
  • (5) For a start, it is impossible: incorrigibility is the defining characteristic of the hardcore Kippers.
  • (6) "Oh, all that rubbish about Muriel being poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury," he scoffed.
  • (7) If Kippers are a motley crew of Tory Europhobes, why should the left pay them any mind?
  • (8) She's appealing to the Kippers and the more extreme wing of her party, no matter what the consequences.
  • (9) My sister, who is a decade younger than me, suffers from it, too, and is often to be found picking over Whitehorn's advice about how useful the inhabitant of a bedsitter will find a jug - it can be used to make tea and coffee, or to cook kippers - or reading, for the ninth time, the author's warning that her recipe cooking times do not include 'the time it takes you to find the salt in the suitcase under the bed'.
  • (10) He is joined in the most-borrowed author list by six children's writers – Daisy Meadows, the brand behind the Rainbow Magic series, Donaldson, Francesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry series, Jacqueline Wilson, Kipper creator Mick Inkpen and the Beast Quest series' Adam Blade.
  • (11) I said that he resembled a kipper that had been smoked before it was dead, and Julie has blanked me since.
  • (12) None of these have made a dent in Ukip's support and those imagining one more "big push" on Europe will return the Kippers to the fold are deluding themselves.
  • (13) One of the greatest sources of anxiety among Labour backbenchers is the fear that immigration is mainly responsible for their leakage of votes to the Kippers.
  • (14) "I have said many, many times I wouldn't count any chickens", says Dorothy Baker, the 77-year-old retired teacher and grandmother-of-six who is part election generalissimo and part self-confessed mother hen to the "'Kippers" of Somerset.
  • (15) A source close to the company said: “Sports Direct looks forward to working with the management as a supportive shareholder.” Kipper Williams on Sports Direct Read more Earlier this year, his company took out a put option on shares in Debenhams , which gave it a 16.6% stake as Sports Direct negotiated a deal to manage sports goods areas within the department store chain.
  • (16) Vote Leave, remember, was meant to be the moderate, judicious voice of Euroscepticism, distinct in manner and content from the vulgar nationalism conveyed by swivel-eyed, puce-cheeked Kippers.
  • (17) Asked to explain the party's failure in London, Ukip's Suzanne Evans was asked if she agreed with the Kipper who had said the problem was that the capital was too full of the "cultured, educated and young".
  • (18) Two women laugh: “It’s only us tough old birds who can face the cold.” A man in a linen suit and panama hat sweeps past into the hotel, looking for all the world like Colonel Sanders; he’s by far the nattiest dressed of the Kippers who, on this showing, seem to be late-middle-aged women in bad anoraks.
  • (19) And before that there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the unions, passengers and politicians about the prospect of higher fares and fewer trains and the general disaster of everything about Britain's railways since the day they stopped serving kippers for breakfast on the night sleeper to Aberdeen.
  • (20) Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East programme at Washington's Institute of World Affairs "Now he is president, I think we have to see whether Karzai has learned any lessons and whether he has the power and tools to govern in a different way.

Tipper


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Having bought the album as a present for her 12-year-old daughter, Tipper Gore, wife of Al, was horrified by the lyrics to Darling Nikki.
  • (2) These beta-lactam antibiotics assume conformation similar to X-D-alanyl-D-alanine due to the presence of the lactam ring; this disagrees with the assumption made by Tipper & Strominger that L and D amino acid residues take similar conformation.
  • (3) But Andrews Tipper says that challenge has also been the project’s strength, as “this type of broad collaboration means that you aren’t just getting a solution that suits one sector.
  • (4) The other cyclist, who is believed to have been 62, was killed in an incident with a tipper lorry on the junction of Mile End Road and Bancroft Road in east London.
  • (5) They include cultivation in (a) flow vessels that contain 12 ml of RBC suspension and are harvested three times a week, (b) a "tipper" that provides a similar yield, and (c) more recently, a large flat-bottomed vessel that holds 75 ml of suspension.
  • (6) A technique used to investigate this is termed negative priming (Tipper, 1985).
  • (7) Hours earlier Brian Holt, 62, a hospital porter, died at the scene of a collision with a tipper lorry on Mile End Road.
  • (8) Burden and Tipper, who have attended MCC for 15 years, said they were surprised to discover their wedding was a first.
  • (9) Photograph: Martin Godwin Tipper truck went past me at a high speed (about 40mph) and came extremely close to me.
  • (10) Tributes from his wife, Tipper, and his daughters, Karenna and Kristin, were interwoven with testimony from figures such as the actor Tommy Lee Jones and the writer David Halberstam, all of them seeking to humanise Mr Gore's defiantly stiff reputation and energise a party unmistakably underwhelmed about its chances in November.
  • (11) We also have to escalate the work by the police on reforming the freight industry, and reaching the small-scale tipper truck operators who account for much of the carnage.
  • (12) It's vital they curb the high number of big vehicles – such as concrete and tipper lorries – involved in fatal collisions with cyclists."
  • (13) Local authorities ended up using them against fly-tippers.
  • (14) New powers will be granted to local authorities to fine fly-tippers and will be another tool in the battle against illegal dumping.” Flytipping statistics
  • (15) "To get married in our church was very significant to us," Tipper said.
  • (16) The main pattern of swallowing was of the tipper type, in which swallowing is initiated with the tip of the tongue against the incisors and the bolus is in a supralingual position.
  • (17) It has been hypothesized that penicillin acts as a structural analog of the acyl-D-alanyl-D-alanine terminus of nascent bacterial cell wall and that it consequently binds to and acylates the active site of the enzyme(s) that crosslinks the cell wall to form an inactive penicilloyl enzyme [Tipper, D.J.
  • (18) Brownfield sites will be developed (bad news for the scrap metal collectors and fly-tippers of the future), density will increase in underpopulated areas, previously maligned backwaters will be blessed with their own cereal cafes and artisan bakeries.
  • (19) The latest to die, 26-year-old Ying Tao, was hit by a tipper truck at the notorious Bank roundabout opposite the Bank of England on 22 June.
  • (20) The report said: "We are particularly concerned by the number of construction vehicles, such as concrete and tipper lorries, involved in fatal collisions with cyclists, and the failure of some haulage companies to follow best practice around cycle safety."

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