(slang, UK) To quiet down, such as to get ready for bed; to go to bed.
(slang, UK) To quiet down, such as to get ready for bed; to go to bed.
Kip in and get to sleep!
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(slang, UK) To sleep outside; to camp; to sleep rough.
(UK, slang) To sleep somewhere other than home, forced to do so by circumstances.
A dated British slang term for a brothel, drawing on 'kip' in its older sense of a cheap lodging house or bed. The term has largely fallen out of use, surviving mainly in historical accounts of Victorian and Edwardian low life. Its euphemistic framing -- presenting a brothel as merely a place to sleep -- was typical of the evasive slang of the era.
Old-fashioned slang for a brothel, used in Britain from the 19th and early 20th centuries. 'Kip' had its own layered slang history — meaning a sleep, a cheap lodging house, or a bed — and a kip-shop was where you paid for more than just a roof over your head. The term is dated enough to be colourful without being offensive, showing up in historical crime fiction and period dramas.