A herring or salmon that has been split, salted, and smoked.
tr.v.kip·pered, kip·per·ing, kip·pers
To prepare (fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
[Middle English kipre, a male salmon in the spawning season, from Old English cypera, probably from cyperen, of copper, from coper, copper (because of the fish's color during the spawning season); see copper1.]
Athleny, in a pair of the oldest trousers anyone had ever worn, his jacket buttoned up to show he had no shirt on, and in a wide-brimmed soft hat, was frying kippers over a fire of sticks.
There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis--a celebrated Scotch dish, gentlemen, which my uncle used to say always looked to him, when it came to table, very much like a Cupid's stomach-- and a great many other things besides, that I forget the names of, but very good things, notwithstanding.
Listeners to local radio stations Heart FM and Galaxy are likely to be a bit bemused when they hear some adverts urging them to visit Cabbage World or its sister attractions, the 'worlds' of kippers and sprouts.
From snaps of Top Toffee Ale Ouses, Me Arl Fella's Shouts (cries heard at matches, so successful it spawned a spin-off book), Show Us Yer Tatts and more than 50 player interviews, Blue Kipper has entertained Evertonians since 2000.
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