kiss
To touch someone or something with your lips to show love, hello, or goodbye.
To press one's lips gently against someone or something as a sign of love, greeting, respect, or sexual attraction.
An act of touching someone or something with your lips to show love, hello, or goodbye.
An act of pressing one's lips gently against someone or something as a sign of love, greeting, respect, or sexual attraction.
To touch something very gently and softly.
To lightly touch something in passing without applying force, often in a delicate or poetic sense.
- Base: kiss
- Plural: kisses
- Base: kiss
- 3rd Person Singular: kisses
- Present Participle: kissing
- Past: kissed
blow a kiss
1Send a kiss by blowing it
To send a kiss through the air by touching your lips and then blowing from your hand toward someone.
- She blew him a kiss as the train left.
- The child blew a kiss to her parents before going inside.
French kiss
1Kiss using tongue sexually
To kiss someone in a way that uses your tongue and is more sexual than a normal kiss.
- They shared a long French kiss under the stars.
- Some people find French kissing very intimate.
kiss and make up
1Reconcile after an argument
To become friends again after an argument, often showing it with a kiss or hug.
- After their fight, they decided to kiss and make up.
- It’s time to stop arguing and just kiss and make up.
kiss goodbye
1Accept loss of something
To accept that you will not get something or that it is gone forever.
- If you miss this meeting, you can kiss your promotion goodbye.
- Without funding, we can kiss the project goodbye.
kiss of death
1Certain cause of failure/ruin
Something that will cause failure or ruin for sure.
- Criticizing the boss openly was the kiss of death for his career.
- In politics, losing public trust can be the kiss of death.