Kipper /(?)/

Kip·per

Kipper

n.
  1. A salmon after spawning. (Zool.)
  2. A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh. [Scot.]

Phrases & Compounds
Kipper time
the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden.

Kipper

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Kippered; p. pr. & vb. n. Kippering

  1. To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.

Kipper

a.
  1. Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly. [Prov. Eng.]