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kibozing

kibozing is the present participle and gerund of kiboze.

Meaning of kiboze

Verb

kiboze (third-person singular simple present kibozes, present participle kibozing, simple past and past participle kibozed)

  1. (Internet) To search the Usenet newsgroups for a text string, particularly one's name or nickname, especially with the intention of posting a follow-up, as popularized by James "Kibo" Parry.
    • The idiot apparently adds spaces to people's names to prevent kibozing. It doesn't help when you're replying to me in a newsgroup I read; I'll find that article just fine. Besides, I don't kiboze. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.fitness.weights/msg/452e24b785207bb5
    Synonyms:
    namesearch

Questions about kibozing

What is kibozing the present participle and gerund of?
Kibozing is the present participle and gerund of kiboze.

Words near kibozing in the dictionary

  1. kiboze
  2. kibozed
  3. kibozer
  4. kibozers
  5. kibozes
  6. kibozing
  7. kibps
  8. KIBS
  9. kibsey
  10. kibseys
  11. kibties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kibozing (page history and authors); kiboze (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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