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verb
To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
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The drinks were still flowing at the Better Together victory party at the Marriott Hotel in Glasgow in the early hours of 19 September when Alistair Darling woke from a brief kip in his room a few floors above the celebration.
The Peak can monitor the crucial stages of sleep and the quality of a night's kip using heart rate, rather than just quantity, as most others do.
Rayo never had much money anyway – when they were last in the First Division one player memorably remarked that he filled the time between a double training session with "lunch at McDonalds and a kip in the back of a truck".
Where to stay Save on your kip so you can splurge on food at ground-breaking Qbic Hotel (0031 43 321 1111, qbichotels.com), pictured, with aluminium-clad sleeping pods that offer seriously comfy beds, mood-altering lights and Philippe Stark bathroom fittings, from £29.
Excess capacity has soared, reaching 74% for video players.In this section Old, down and out in Japan The butcher remains a menace Backwards and forwards in China A red army strikes Gone for a kip ReprintsExcess capacity has financial costs.
When UN peacekeepers arrived in 1992, there were only about five lawyers.In this section Old, down and out in Japan The butcher remains a menace Backwards and forwards in China A red army strikes Gone for a kip ReprintsBut, says Mr Hun Sen, "the main thing is that Mr Ta Mok has been arrested.
According to a recent survey by the Tokyo city government, 60% of the city's homeless say their last job was as a day labourer.In this section Old, down and out in Japan The butcher remains a menace Backwards and forwards in China A red army strikes Gone for a kip ReprintsBy the late 1980s San'ya was enjoying a second construction boom, thanks to soaring land and stock prices.
Armed struggle is not the best way, but it is one of the ways".Back to top >>TuesdayI WAS on the road around first light, yawning, my kip having been interrupted by a couple of policemen beating up a couple of drunks in the street outside.
Tristan Knowles, the director of Economists at Large, an Australian consultancy, calculates that a (modest) 10% appreciation of the yuan against the Laos kip could increase the burden of such a loan by 3.8 billion yuan ($620m) in a very short time.No matter.
EXPERIENCED business travellers know the deal with New York City and its hotels: if you want to stay in Manhattan, and you don't want to sleep in a dirty room or kip on someone's sofa, you should be prepared to pay a lot.
The currency, the kip, collapsed last year.
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