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kitchen passes

kitchen passes is the plural of kitchen pass.

Meaning of kitchen pass

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

Questions about kitchen passes

What is kitchen passes the plural of?
Kitchen passes is the plural of kitchen pass.

Words near kitchen passes in the dictionary

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

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