kipper

C1 noun

kipper /ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/ nghĩa là cá trích muối hun khói

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cá trích muối hun khói

A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.

Kipper ties were briefly in fashion.
Today I had some kipper for breakfast.
cá hồi đực sau khi đẻ

A male salmon after spawning.
tuần tra bảo vệ tàu cá

A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.

Kipper-kites, aircraft engaged on convoy escort duties over the North Sea and usually giving protection to the fishing-vessels.
ngư lôi

A torpedo.

uk · slang

As she was only crawling along I aimed my first ‘kipper’ just a fraction ahead of her bows.
I evaluate its firing power at eighteen torpedoes—I think kipper is a distressing piece of naval slang—in thirty minutes.
'Fancy running the risk of getting a kipper [a torpedo] to go with his grub.'
người Anh di cư sang Úc

An Englishman who has moved to Australia.

australia · slang

1 Kipper, Englishman
An able seaman on a kipper warship called the Eagle.
Quite often they [sc. English immigrants in Australia] are referred to as Kippers.
thổ dân trẻ đã trưởng thành

A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.

australia

Around us sat ‘Kippers’, i.e. ‘hobbledehoy blacks’.
A ceremony at which the young men […] receive the rank of warriors and are henceforth called Kippers.

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