kipe

Etymology 1

From Middle English kipe, kype, from Old English cȳpe, cȳpa (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kipǭ, *kippǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist”). Akin to Middle Low German kīpe ("basket"; > German Low German Kiep, Kiepke (“basket”), German Kiepe (“carrying basket”)), Norwegian kaup (“wooden box; crate”).

noun

1. An osier basket used for catching fish.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from dialectal kip (“to snatch”).

verb

1. (slang) to steal
   Johnny imagines all manner of chrome gadgetry that he could kipe and give to his father to jazz up his ’fifty-six Ford Vicky ragtop. 1987 [1984], James Ellroy, chapter 22, in Because the Night, New York: Avon, page 189

Etymology 3

noun

1. Alternative spelling of kype (“Upturned lower jaw of a male salmonid”)