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kiasus

kiasus is the plural of kiasu.

Meaning of kiasu

Noun

kiasu (plural kiasu or kiasus)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial, derogatory, mildly) A kiasu person.
    • Apart from the kiasis and kiasus, there are also Singaporeans at the other end of the scale – the healthcare workers who put their lives at risk.2003 May 28, Frederick Lim, “Sars and the Singaporean: Crisis has brought out the best and the worst”, in Today, Singapore, page 22

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Questions about kiasus

What is kiasus the plural of?
Kiasus is the plural of kiasu.

Words near kiasus in the dictionary

  1. kiasiness
  2. kiasis
  3. kiasu
  4. kiasuism
  5. kiasuness
  6. kiasus
  7. kiat-kiat
  8. Kiata
  9. Kiato
  10. Kiaton
  11. Kiavah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kiasus (page history and authors); kiasu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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