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kek

/kɛk/

kek interjection: used to indicate laughter or humour.

Interjection

  1. (Internet) Used to indicate laughter or humour.
    • Now Freakie boy, for a tasty doggie biscuit, can you try saying that again without any grammatical error?
      kek kek kek kek kek2007 October 13, The Cynic [username], “Re: Nobel Peace belong to me.”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet)
    • Top kek.
      I can't believe Apple would derp like THAT, at least the Apple of the mid-1980s.2013 December 11, Steve Nickolas, “Re: 1984 Apple IIe Owner's Manual”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet)

Verb

kek (third-person singular simple present keks, present participle kekking or keking, simple past and past participle kekked or keked or kek'd)

  1. (Internet, transitive) To laugh.
    Synonyms:
    LOL

Noun capitalized: KEK

KEK (plural KEKs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of key exchange key.

Synonyms of kek

Forms of kek

Verb
third-person singular presentkeks
present participlekekking
present participlekeking
past participlekekked
pastkekked
past participlekeked
pastkeked
past participlekek'd
pastkek'd
Noun
pluralKEKs

Origin of kek

Borrowed from Korean ㅋㅋㅋ (keukeukeu, “haha”, representation of laughter). Since this is often used in StarCraft matches, Blizzard, StarCraft’s developers, decided to reference it in World of Warcraft: when a player of the Horde faction types "lol" using the /say messaging command, members of the opposing faction see it as "kek". Not related to "kik", a typo of "lol".

Words formed from kek

Phrases with kek

Words that rhyme with kek

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Questions about kek

What does kek mean?
Kek means used to indicate laughter or humour.
What part of speech is kek?
Kek can be an interjection, a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce kek?
Kek is pronounced /kɛk/.

Words near kek in the dictionary

  1. keiyodoshi
  2. Keizer
  3. Keizers
  4. Kejia
  5. Kejias
  6. kek
  7. kek lapis
  8. kek'd
  9. Keka
  10. kekaeshi
  11. Kekchi

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