osculating

Verb

osculate (third-person singular simple present osculates, present participle osculating, simple past and past participle osculated)

1. (ambitransitive) To kiss.
   • And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
2. To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
3. (intransitive) To make contact.
4. (Vedic) To perform osculation.
5. To form a connecting link between two genera.

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