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Definition of Kybosh
1. to kibosh [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: kibosh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kybosh
Literary usage of Kybosh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"77, St. Martin's Lane, WO I can't do with him ; he s so much kybosh " <=fooling
... "It's all kybosh ! " another would say. It was also used in the sense of ..."
2. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... than the i spelling, Additionally, almost all the evidence in the Merriam-Webster
files for the spelling kybosh is British: Robbing Peter to pay Paul. ..."
3. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"We arc further informed by the same authority that kibosh or kybosh also means
one shilling and sixpence, which unfortunately does not give us much light. ..."
4. The Best Psychic Stories edited by Joseph Lewis French (1920)
"I'll put the kybosh on the devils!" Sort of "This is my picnic" expression.
Then, before you could say "knife," the Germans had turned, and we were after ..."
5. The American Bibliopolist (1875)
"... enemy " putting the kybosh on him," putting the cui bono? on him—making him
admit that to struggle longer would be for no one's benefit. MARCUS CLARKE. ..."
6. The Life and Reminiscences of E. L. Blanchard by Edward L. Blanchard, Drinkwater Meadows (1891)
"... first knowledge of the curious combinations the alphabet was Sheriff, Fred
Storey ; the Poodle, Charles Lauri, .Tun. ; kybosh Arabi Pasha, Harry Jackson ..."
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