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kiss-ups

kiss-ups is the plural of kiss-up.

Meaning of kiss-up

Noun

kiss-up (plural kiss-ups)

  1. (colloquial) One who flatters a supervisor, or superior, in order to get special attention
    • Joe got that promotion because he was a kiss-up, not because he knew the job.

Questions about kiss-ups

What is kiss-ups the plural of?
Kiss-ups is the plural of kiss-up.

Words near kiss-ups in the dictionary

  1. kiss-me-quick
  2. kiss-me-quicks
  3. kiss-off
  4. kiss-offs
  5. kiss-up
  6. kiss-ups
  7. kissa
  8. kissability
  9. kissable
  10. kissableness
  11. kissably

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kiss-ups (page history and authors); kiss-up (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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