• IPA: /ˈkɪpə(ɹ)/

kipper (plural kippers)

1. A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
2. A male salmon after spawning.
3. (military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
4. (UK, naval slang) A torpedo.
   • 2009, Jean Hood, Submarine (page 197)

     'Fancy running the risk of getting a kipper [a torpedo] to go with his grub.'

• Russian: копчёный

kipper (kippers, present participle kippering; past and past participle kippered)

1. (cooking) To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
   • 1836 March – 1837 October​, Charles Dickens, chapter 49, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, OCLC 28228280 ↗:

     There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis […]

kipper (plural kippers)

1. (UK, humorous, often with capital) A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).

kipper

1. (UK, dialect) amorous
2. (UK, dialect) lively; light-footed; nimble

1. Surname
2. A supporter or member of UKIP United Kingdom Independence Party