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The Manx word for kipper is skeddan jiarg which literally translates as red herring. Compare to Irish scadán dearg.
Kipper time is the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden in Great Britain, originally the period 3 May to 6 January, in the River Thames by an Act of Parliament.
Kipper season refers (particularly among fairground workers, market workers, taxi drivers and the like) to any lean period in trade, particularly the first three or four months of the year; possibly a reference to the above usage, or to the need to live frugally during such a period, by (for instance) living on kippers.
The sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy use the term kippers as a slang for members of the Royal Navy.
The term kippering is used in slang to mean being immersed in a room filled with cigarette or other tobacco smoke.
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