Kip

as an informal word

Kip may refer to any of the following:

• Lao kip, the currency of Laos
• Kip (unit), a unit of force or mass
• Kip, Inverclyde, a village in Scotland
• Kip, Croatia, a village near Daruvar
• Kip-up, an acrobatic manoeuvre used in martial arts and gymnastics
• Kip (artistic gymnastics), a manoeuvre used in gymnastics
• Kip (dance move), a move in Swing Dance
• Kip (trampolining), a coaching skill used in trampolining
• Kipper, a kind of smoked fish
• 'Kip, short for Mudkip.
• Kip (British slang), sleep; 'to be caught kipping' - to be caught unawares.

People with the name Kip:

• Kip Jacobs aka Kip Frace, North American contemporary artist
• Kip Addotta, American comedian
• Kipling "Kip" Ronald Dynamite, character in the 2004 movie Napoleon Dynamite
• Kipchoge "Kip" Keino, Kenyan athlete
• Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat, American middle- and long-distance athlete
• Kipland "Kip" Kinkel, American school shooter
• Austin H. "Kip" Kiplinger, American publisher
• Jason "Kip" Kipnis (born 1987), American baseball player; second baseman for the Cleveland Indians
• Kipp Lennon, American rock musician, Venice
• Kip Miller, American ice hockey player
• Kip Rhinelander, New York socialite and sensational divorcé
• Monty Kip Sopp, also known as Kip James, is an American professional wrestler
• Kip Thorne, American theoretical physicist
• Kip Wells, American baseball player
• Kip Winger, American rock musician, Winger

KIP may be an acronym for

• Katsuragawa Imaging Products, almost exclusively known as KIP America or KIP
• Kirchhoff Institute of Physics at Heidelberg University Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
• Katathym Imaginative Psychotherapy (or Guided Affective Imagery, started by Hanscarl Leuner)
• KIP1 (aka p27) stands for Kinase Inhibitor Protein 1 (which is a member of the Cip/Kip family of Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor proteins)

See also

• Kipp