Green’s Dictionary of Slang

kipehook n.

In phrases

put the kipehook on (v.)

to surpass.

1779

Man of Pleasure’s Illus. Pocket-book n.p.: This abbess has just put the kipehook on all other purveyors of the French flesh market. She does not keep her meat too long on the hooks, though she will have her price ; but nothing is allowed to get stale here.