kipper

kipper
    n 1: salted and smoked herring [syn: {kipper}, {kippered
         herring}]
    

Kipper \Kip"per\, n. [D. kippen to hatch, snatch, seize. Cf.
   {Kipe}.]
   1. (Zool.) A salmon after spawning.
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   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.]
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   {Kipper time}, the season in which fishing for salmon is
      forbidden. [Eng. & Scot.]
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Kipper \Kip"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kippered}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Kippering}.]
   To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking. "Kippered
   salmon." --Dickens.
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Kipper \Kip"per\, a.
   Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly.
   [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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69 Moby Thesaurus words for "kipper":
      Loch Ness monster, alevin, anguille, anhydrate, benthon, benthos,
      blast-freeze, brine, caviar, cetacean, corn, cure, dehydrate,
      desiccate, dolphin, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, eel, embalm,
      evaporate, fingerling, fish, fish eggs, freeze, freeze-dry, fry,
      fume, game fish, grilse, irradiate, jerk, kippered salmon,
      man-eater, man-eating shark, marinade, marinate, marine animal,
      minnow, minny, mummify, nekton, panfish, pickle, plankton, poisson,
      porpoise, preservatize, quick-freeze, red herring, refrigerate,
      roe, salmon, salt, sea monster, sea pig, sea serpent, sea snake,
      seafood, season, shark, smoke, smoke-cure, smoked herring, smolt,
      sponge, stuff, tropical fish, whale