keg |
| noun
- A round wooden container that has a flat top and bottom, often used to store beer.
| | KG |
| initialism
- Knight of the Garter
| kilderkin |
| noun - A small barrel.
- An old English liquid measure, usually being half a barrel; containing 18 English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure.
- Quotations
- 1882: 23 Hen. VIII, cap. 4... The barrel of beer is to hold 36 gallons, the kilderkin 18 gallons the firkin 9. But the barrel, kilderkin, and firkin of ale are to contain 32, 16, and 8 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205.
| kilo |
| noun
- Short form of kilogram.
- The letter K in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
| kiloton |
| noun
- a measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many thousand tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
- That's a 300-kiloton nuclear warhead.
| kip |
| noun
- (context, colloquial, informal) sleep, Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze, siesta.
- I"m just going for my afternoon .
- (obsolete) Piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
- Very untidy house or room.
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons) or sometimes equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- (context, gymnastics) A move or maneuver from below the equipment to above it.
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol â�.
verb (kip, p, ing)
- To sleep.
- Don"t worry, I"ll on the sofabed.
| kl |
| abbreviation
- kilolitre, kiloliter
| KM |
| initialism
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