Kippe

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪpə/

Probably via unattested Middle Low German and Old Saxon forms from Latin cippus (“pole”). The word is attested in early modern German in an Upper German form kipfe and originally meant “top, point”.

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1. stub, butt (remnant of a smoked cigarette)

   Synonym: Stummel

2. (colloquial) cigarette

   Synonyms: Zigarette, Fluppe, Ziese

   Hasse ma 'ne Kippe? ― You got a cig?

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From the verb kippen (“to tilt, to dump”), which itself might be derived from Kippe (etymology 1, above).

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1. dump (pile of refuse)

   Synonym: Halde

2. (chiefly in auf der Kippe) spot where something is tilted or tips over

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• auf der Kippe
• Müllkippe

• “Kippe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Kippe” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon