Kip·per n.
1. Zool. A salmon after spawning.
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.]
Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. [Eng. & Scot.]
Kip·per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Kippered p. pr. & vb. n. Kippering.] To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking. “Kippered salmon.”
Kip·per, a. Amorous; also, lively; light-footed; nimble; gay; sprightly. [Prov. Eng.]
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kipper
n : salted and smoked herring [syn: kippered herring]