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kisses hands

kisses hands is the third-person singular simple present indicative of kiss hands.

Meaning of kiss hands

Verb

kiss hands (third-person singular simple present kisses hands, present participle kissing hands, simple past and past participle kissed hands)

  1. (UK) To formally accept an appointment as prime minister or certain other ministerial positions in a royal ceremony.
    • Bishop Wilberforce had accompanied Mr. Gladstone to Windsor, when he went to kiss hands on his appointment as Prime Minister.1896, Reginald Baliol Brett Esher (Viscount), The Yoke of Empire: Sketches of the Queen's Prime Ministers, page 175
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kiss, hands.

Questions about kisses hands

What is kisses hands the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Kisses hands is the third-person singular simple present indicative of kiss hands.

Words near kisses hands in the dictionary

  1. kisses and makes up
  2. kisses and tells
  3. kisses arse
  4. kisses ass
  5. kisses goodbye
  6. kisses hands
  7. kisses of death
  8. kisses of life
  9. kisses of peace
  10. kisses off
  11. kisses one's teeth

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