Editing Kipper (section)

==Related terms==
The [[Manx language|Manx]] word for kipper is {{lang|gv|skeddan jiarg}}, literally  ''red herring''; the Irish term is ''scadán dearg'' with the same meaning.{{Cn|date=December 2024}}

''Kipper time'' is the season in which fishing for salmon in the [[River Thames]] in the United Kingdom is forbidden by an [[Act of Parliament]]; this period was originally the period 3 May to 6 January but has changed since.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kippers |url=https://www.fao.org/4/x5925e/x5925e01.htm |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=www.fao.org}}</ref> ''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.{{Cn|date=December 2024}}

Members of the Canadian military referred to English people as ''kippers'' because they were believed to frequently eat kippers for breakfast.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Langeste |first=Tom |title=Words on the wing: slang, aphorisms, catchphrases and jargon of Canadian military aviation since 1914 |publisher=Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies |year=1995 |isbn=0919769535 |pages=161}}</ref>

The English (UK) [[idiom]] [to be] "stitched (or "done") up like a kipper" is commonly used to describe a situation where a person has (depending on context) been "fitted up" or "framed"; "used", unfairly treated or betrayed; or cheated out of something, with no possibility of correcting the "wrong" done.{{Cn|date=December 2024}}

In the children's books ''[[The Railway Series]]'', and in the television show ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends]]'', The Flying Kipper is a nickname for a fast fish train usually pulled by Henry the Green Engine.{{Cn|date=December 2024}}

The [[United States Department of Agriculture]] defines "Kippered Beef" as a cured dry product similar to beef jerky but not as dry.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/import/Labeling-Policy-Book.pdf|title=Food Standards and Labeling Policy Book, Aug 2005 |publisher=USDA |access-date=25 July 2021}}</ref>