noun

• (military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
  "Kipper, I discovered, was airman's slang for a fishing boat. The chief function of this particular station was the escorting of convoys and fishing fleets, and the section which had the latter duty to perform was known as the ‘Kipper Patrol’."
• (UK, naval slang) A torpedo.
  "As she was only crawling along I aimed my first ‘kipper’ just a fraction ahead of her bows."
• (Australia, slang) An Englishman who has moved to Australia.
  "1 Kipper, Englishman"
• (Australia) A young Aboriginal man who has been initiated into to the rights of manhood.
  "With these weapons the natives invest their young men at the age of from fourteen to sixteen years... These young men are then called kippers, and for the first time enjoy the privilege of taking an active part in the fight."

verb

• (cooking) To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.
  "There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis[…]"
• (by extension) To damage or treat with smoke.
  ""Your own fault. Did you imagine I was going to live on a gasring, because you wouldn't have your chimney repaired?" Then Diva got a tenant in spite of the kippered bathroom, and moved to a dilapidated hovel close beside the railway line, which she got for half the rent which she received for her house."

adj

• (fishing, especially of salmon) Out of season.
  "These were kipper salmon, and an acquaintance of mine living at Burton Rowbottom who was trolling for pike at Yoxall, near to King's Bromley, got a run, five years ago, and caught a beautiful salmon weighting 25 lbs."
• (of a tie) Very wide, shaped like a kipper.
  "Blades initiated a regeneration in modern British tailoring that from the mid-sixties began by flirting somewhat uneasily with the hippie style -- its most flamboyant exponent being Michael Fish, who opened premises in Piccadilly in 1966, introducing the kipper tie , Russian-style side-fastening tunics, see-through shirts and mini skirts for men."

noun

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