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put the kibosh on

put the kibosh on verb: to halt, stop, or squelch.

Verb

put the kibosh on (third-person singular simple present puts the kibosh on, present participle putting the kibosh on, simple past and past participle put the kibosh on)

  1. (slang, transitive) To halt, stop, or squelch.
    • Someone really needs to go put the kibosh on that noisy party.
    • ("Hoo-roa," ejaculates a pot-boy in a parenthesis, "put the kye-bosh on her, Mary.")1837, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. The Second Series, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, chapter SEVEN DIALS, page 149

put the kibosh on meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

put the kibosh on in Bengali

থামিয়ে দেওয়া, বন্ধ করা, দমন করা

put the kibosh on in Malayalam

stop, put a stop to, halt
മറ്റൊന്നു സംഭവിക്കുന്നതു തടയുക, അവസാനിപ്പിക്കുക, നശിപ്പിക്കുക, ഇല്ലായ്മ ചെയ്യുക, ദുർഘടത്തിലാക്കുക, നിർത്തുക

Forms of put the kibosh on

third-person singular presentputs the kibosh on
present participleputting the kibosh on
past participleput the kibosh on
pastput the kibosh on

Origin of put the kibosh on

See kibosh.

Questions about put the kibosh on

What does put the kibosh on mean?
Put the kibosh on means to halt, stop, or squelch.
What is put the kibosh on in Bengali?
Put the kibosh on in Bengali is থামিয়ে দেওয়া, বন্ধ করা, দমন করা. See Put the kibosh on meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is put the kibosh on?
Put the kibosh on is a verb.
What is the past tense of put the kibosh on?
The past tense of put the kibosh on is put the kibosh on.

Words near put the kibosh on in the dictionary

  1. put the genie back in the bottle
  2. put the hammer down
  3. put the heart across one
  4. put the heat on
  5. put the herd on someone
  6. put the kibosh on
  7. put the kybosh on
  8. put the last hand to
  9. put the lid on
  10. put the lie to
  11. put the make on

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: put the kibosh on (page history and authors); put the kibosh on (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); put the kibosh on (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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