Kip

Noun

 * 1) The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
 * 2) A bundle or set of such hides.
 * 3)  A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
 * 4) The leather made from such hide; kip leather.
 * 5)  A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
 * 6)  Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
 * I’m just going for my afternoon kip.
 * 1)  A very untidy house or room.
 * 2)  A brothel.
 * 3) A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
 * 4) A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
 * 5)  A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
 * 6) The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
 * 7)  A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
 * 8)  Piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
 * 9)  A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

Verb

 * 1)  To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
 * Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed.

Synonyms

 * crash