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kitchen pass

kitchen pass noun: permission given to one's partner (usually from wife to husband) to go out independently on a social outing.

Noun

kitchen pass (plural kitchen passes)

  1. (humorous, informal) Permission given to one's partner (usually from wife to husband) to go out independently on a social outing.
    • After a moment she continued, “All I meant was did you manage to get a kitchen pass from Laurel?”
    • “I don't need a kitchen pass from Laurel or anyone else,” she snapped.2007, Megan Carter, Please Forgive Me

Forms of kitchen pass

pluralkitchen passes

Questions about kitchen pass

What does kitchen pass mean?
Kitchen pass means permission given to one's partner (usually from wife to husband) to go out independently on a social outing.
What part of speech is kitchen pass?
Kitchen pass is a noun.
What is the plural of kitchen pass?
The plural of kitchen pass is kitchen passes.

Words near kitchen pass in the dictionary

  1. kitchen knives
  2. kitchen midden
  3. kitchen middens
  4. kitchen paper
  5. kitchen papers
  6. kitchen pass
  7. kitchen passes
  8. kitchen roll
  9. kitchen rolls
  10. kitchen salt
  11. kitchen sign

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