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Anagram Poem for the new year made from the letters in "pumpkin pie."
Kepi: A French military cap with a flat circular top and a visor.
Pip: The small seed of a fruit, as that of an apple or orange.
kip1 Slang n.
1. Brit sleep or slumber to get some kip
2. Brit a bed or lodging
3. Obsolete (except Irish) a brothel
vb kips, kipping, kipped (intr)
1. Brit to sleep or take a nap
2. Brit (foll by down) to prepare for sleep
[of uncertain origin; apparently related to Danish kippe common alehouse]
kip2 (kp) n.
1. The untanned hide of a small or young animal, such as a calf.
2. A set or bundle of such hides.
[Middle English, bundle of animal hides, perhaps from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German.]
kip3 (kp) Chiefly British Slang n.
1. A rooming house.
2. A place to sleep; a bed.
3. Sleep.
intr.v. kipped, kip·ping, kips
To sleep.
[Perhaps from Danish kippe, cheap inn; akin to Old Norse -kippa (as in kornkippa, seed-corn holder) and
Low German kiffe, hovel.]
kip4 (kp)
n. A unit of weight equal to 1,000 pounds (455 kilograms).
[ki(lo)- + p(ound).]