kip out
(slang, UK) To sleep outside; to camp; to sleep rough.
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(slang, UK) To sleep outside; to camp; to sleep rough.
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- kip down79%
(UK, slang) To sleep somewhere other than home, forced to do so by circumstances.
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(slang, UK) To quiet down, such as to get ready for bed; to go to bed.
- doss out71%
(slang, intransitive) To sleep outside.
- kip-shop70%
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.
- doss out68%
British slang meaning to sleep rough or bed down outside, typically used in the context of homelessness, camping out without gear, or crashing somewhere improvised in the open air. It extends the broader doss vocabulary — doss means to sleep or crash somewhere casual — with the out specifying an outdoor location. Often used without judgment, describing a practical situation rather than a moral one.