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kiboshing

kiboshing is the present participle and gerund of kibosh.

Meaning of kibosh

Verb

kibosh (third-person singular simple present kiboshes, present participle kiboshing, simple past and past participle kiboshed)

  1. (slang, transitive) To decisively put a stop to or terminate (someone or something).
    • Philly Kiboshes Blackout Tutoring [title] […] Plan of the Pennsylvania State Council of Defense to ring in a State-wide network of 45 stations for an "educational" blackout test, was nixed by the Office of Censorship after it was okayed by the Third Service Command of the army. Skedded for Thursday...1943 July 17, “Philly Kiboshes Blackout Tutoring”, in The Billboard: The World’s Foremost Amusement Weekly, volume 55, number 29, Cincinnati, Oh.: Roger S. Littleford Jr.; William D. Littleford...

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Questions about kiboshing

What is kiboshing the present participle and gerund of?
Kiboshing is the present participle and gerund of kibosh.

Words near kiboshing in the dictionary

  1. Kibor
  2. kibos
  3. kibosh
  4. kiboshed
  5. kiboshes
  6. kiboshing
  7. Kibosho
  8. kiboze
  9. kibozed
  10. kibozer
  11. kibozers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kiboshing (page history and authors); kibosh (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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