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Questions about words borrowed by English from another language.

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Is "kip" Chinese in origin?

Could the BE slang term ‘kip’ meaning to sleep be a borrowing from Hokkien? I searched Hobson/Jobson and came up with this: CHOP-CHOP . Pigeon-English (or -Chinese) for 'Make haste! look sharp!' …
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