Definition of "kipper" []

• A male salmon or seatrout during or shortly after the spawning season. (noun)
• A herring or salmon that has been split, salted, and smoked. (noun)
• To prepare (fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A kipper is a whole herring that has been split from tail to head, gutted, salted, and cold smoked."
• "Winter; but being stopt that course, or lost; grow sick in fresh waters, and by degrees unseasonable, and kipper, that is, to have a bony gristle, to grow (not unlike a Hauks beak) on one of his chaps, which hinders him from feeding, and then he pines and dies."
• "Only the first-years without older siblings were wearing our ties in this "kipper" style, which immediately marked us out as targets for ridicule."