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Done Up Like a Kipper

British idiom for one who has been totally bamboozled or taken advantage of by another.
Friend A: You just bought a gold watch from the street vendor for 100 quid?

Friend B: Yeah, mate, nice watch, isn't it?

Friend A: Eh, boy, you've been done up like a kipper!
by ripeness November 9, 2012
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Legend: "Want to buy a snowboard?"
Kipper: "sure, how much mate?"
Legend: "£300?"
Kipper: "Awesome"
Legend: "ahh only cost me £200, done you like a kipper!"
Kipper: "Where does that saying come from anyway?"
Legend: "From me when I sold you a snowboard!"
by theRealPhantomPleaseStandUp January 12, 2015
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Done Up Like a Kipper

Done up/stiched up like a kipper, surely takes it's meaning from the term red herring, which means to mislead or distract from an important issue, in a trickster style.

A Red Herring, in the literal sense, is a particularly strong smelling fish called a Kipper that has turned a red colour following the smoking process traditionally used to preserve it.
Therefore, to be done or stiched up like a kipper, clearly means to be duped or tricked by false information that was there for all to see, (in hindsight).
For example: when someone purchases an item they believe to be far superior to what it turns out to be, based on the persuasion and false information by the seller.

He was done up like a kipper when he bought that car. Meaning the car was a pile of s*** and he was tricked when he payed top dollar for it.
by squeeze163 August 4, 2016
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Blimey yes these drugs are working.
"He doesn't even remember being there..."
"Yeah, he was done up like a kipper"
by Earl Montmorency Grey July 18, 2005
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Flying Kipper

I have to take a Flying Kipper over tomorrow
by Henry The Green Engine January 1, 2024
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Kippered

Marc was kippered by Gary today
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Kipper

K.I.P.P.E.R.S.

Kid In Parent’s Pocket Eroding Retirement Savings

Or Kipper for referring to 1 person
Kippers are in their mid to late 20’s still living at home with their parents with no job. It doesn’t matter if they want to go to college/school they are still sucking the financial tit of their parents for (food, phone, car insurance/repairs) so if they’re unemployed in their 20’s they are a KIPPER.
A group of them are KIPPER’S.
“You see Nate on Snapchat last night smoking a blunt on his back porch? Yeah, same smoke spot since high school dog; what a KIPPER”

“Yo John you still livin at home bruh? Stop being such a KIPPER and get a job

“Alright Kipper it was good talking to you, say hi to Mrs H for me aight?”
by I Yung Puck November 18, 2025
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