n. A herring or salmon that has been split, salted, and smoked. tr.v. kip·pered, kip·per·ing, kip·pers To prepare (fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking. [Middle English kipre, a male salmon in the spawning season, from Old English cypera, probably from cyperen, of copper, from coper, copper (because of the fish's color during the spawning season); see COPPER1.] |
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