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Thread #94868   Message #1841265
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
22-Sep-06 - 10:30 PM
Thread Name: English To English Translation Needed
Subject: RE: English To English Translation Needed
Kip has many meanings, including a brothel or doss-house(18th c. English).
To kip, or take a kip, meaning a nap, seems to have come from kip as a name for a lodging house, lodging, or, a bed. These were used in England in the 19th century and may still be used.
Kip seems not to have had common usage in North America. In the 19th c., it was a name for a bundle of hides but I think this usage has died.

Get Fuzzy was in the Sunday comics of our local paper, but we stopped out subscription, and I haven't seen it since.