Definitions for KISS

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KISS kiss

Spelling: [kis]

IPA: /kɪs/

Kiss is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in KISS (ikss).

Definitions for KISS

noun

1. an act or instance of kissing.
2. a slight touch or contact.
3. Billiards, Pool. the slight touch of one ball by another.
4. a baked confection of egg whites and confectioners' sugar, served as a cookie.
5. a piece of toffeelike confectionery, sometimes containing nuts, coconut, or the like.
6. a small, sometimes conical, bite-size piece of chocolate, usually individually wrapped.
7. keep it simple, stupid: the principle that a product, service, system, etc., should be easy to learn and use.

Idioms

1. blow / throw a kiss, to indicate an intended kiss from a distance, usually in bidding farewell, by kissing one's own fingertips and moving the hand toward the person greeted.
2. kiss ass, Slang: Vulgar. to be obsequious; fawn.

Verb phrases

1. kiss off, Slang. to reject, dismiss, or ignore: (used to express contemptuous rejection or dismissal). to give up, renounce, or dispense with:

verb (used with object)

1. to touch or press with the lips slightly pursed, and then often to part them and to emit a smacking sound, in an expression of affection, love, greeting, reverence, etc.:
2. to join lips with in this way:
3. to touch gently or lightly:
4. to put, bring, take, etc., by, or as if by, kissing:
5. Billiards, Pool. (of a ball) to make slight contact with or brush (another ball).

verb (used without object)

1. to join lips in respect, affection, love, passion, etc.:
2. to express a thought, feeling, etc., by a contact of the lips:
3. to purse and then part the lips, emitting a smacking sound, as in kissing someone.
4. Billiards, Pool. (of a ball) to carom gently off or touch another ball.

Origin of KISS

before 900; Middle English kissen to kiss, Old English cyssan (cognate with German küssen, Old Norse kyssa), derivative of Old English coss a kiss; cognate with Old Norse koss, German Küss

Examples for KISS

He held her hand affectionately in his, and often drew her toward him, that he might kiss her cheek.

He came up to her, more gently now, and took up her hand to kiss it.

When he was done, he gave his daughter a kiss on the forehead.

Her full lips were parted before him, but he did not kiss them.

He would pull her toward him, hug her, kiss her, and stroke her hair.

When I tell her that Clooney is rumored to also kiss the Dowager Countess during the episode, she chuckles.

kiss me, my brother, and let my tears run only from my pride and joy!

As she leaned over him, he smiled faintly, and imprinted a kiss upon her lips.

Joe Biden was there to ‘kiss the ring,’ while John McCain boasted of a record 101 appearances.

He tries to kiss her again, but, he writes, “she didn't comply.”