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v-kei

v-kei is the abbreviation of visual kei.

Meaning of visual kei

Noun

visual kei (uncountable)

  1. A Japanese music and fashion movement that emerged in the 1980s, characterized by a bold, extravagant, androgynous style influenced by glam rock and goth culture.
    • Incidentally, I'm not sure you're bucking the trend so much as going along with it; FTM crossplay is getting pretty popular, although you see more women going for bishounen and visual-kei genderfucky stars than anything else.2001 May 22, Wednesday, “Re: 'There are only 500 REAL anime fans in the UK'”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet), message-ID <-6y*A5OWo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>

Noun capitalized: V-Kei

V-Kei (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of v-kei

Questions about v-kei

What is v-kei the abbreviation of?
V-kei is the abbreviation of visual kei.
What part of speech is v-kei?
V-kei is a noun.

Words near v-kei in the dictionary

  1. V-form
  2. V-forms
  3. V-girl
  4. V-girls
  5. V-J Day
  6. v-kei
  7. V-level
  8. V-levels
  9. v-line
  10. v-lines
  11. V-lip redhorse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: v-kei (page history and authors); V-Kei (page history and authors); visual kei (page history and authors). 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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