kibbosh

Noun (1)

kibosh (uncountable)

1. (slang) Only used in put on the kibosh and put the kibosh on: something which checks or restrains.
   • “What do you mean by hussies?” interrupted a champion of the other party, who has evinced a strong inclination to get up a branch fight on her own account. (“Hoo-roa,” ejaculates a pot-boy in a parenthesis, “put the kye-bosh on her, Mary.”)1837, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Seven Dials”, in Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. The Second Series, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, page 149

Noun (2)

kibosh (uncountable)

1. (UK, obsolete, rare, slang) Bosh, nonsense.
   • Still I wish you a 'Appy New Year, if you care for the kibosh, old Chappie, / Though 'taint 'Igh Art Cards full o' gush and green paint 'll make you and me 'appy. / Wot we want is lucre and larks, love and lotion as much as you'll carry!1885 January 3, ’Arry [pseudonym], “’Arry on ’Appiness”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume LXXXVIII, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 4, column 1

Noun (3)

kibosh (uncountable)

1. (UK, obsolete, rare, slang) Chiefly preceded by the: fashion, style.
   • She was, in very Sooth, among the highest of the Rollers, but Hiram stood for the Bills with nary a Whimper. He was proud to be the Husband of the Lady Ki-Bosh of the Local Knickerbockers.1904 March, George Ade, “Rugged Hiram and Hiram’s Giddy Wife”, in Breaking into Society, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 34

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