Meaning of kibosh | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Chiefly in put on the kibosh or put the kibosh on: something which checks or restrains.
   slang, uncountable
2. Bosh, nonsense.
   British, obsolete, rare, slang, uncountable
3. Chiefly preceded by the: fashion, style.
   British, obsolete, rare, slang, uncountable

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Examples

““What do you mean by hussies?” interrupted a champion of the other party, who has evinced a strong inclination to get up a branch fight on her own account. (“Hoo-roa,” ejaculates a pot-boy in a parenthesis, “put the kye-bosh on her, Mary.”)”

“Once or twice triumphant memories of the earlier incidents nerve his face for awhile. "I put the ky-bosh on his little game," he remarks.”

“It's one of my little chores as private secretary to smell out these revolutions and affix the kibosh before they break out and scratch the paint off the government property.”

“The right plan would be to put the complete kybosh (if I may use the expression) on your chances of becoming an alderman.”

“Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Gob, that puts the bloody kybosh on it if old sloppy eyes is mucking up the show.”

“George put the kibosh on the Kirov case and now he's trying to get it right, flying solo in his old age.”

“I know because I worked with the Home Office and the service for many years to accomplish what became the envy of the world. It was being dismantled long before [Theresa] May took office – [David] Blunkett started the rot – but May has the ultimate kibosh.”

“Still I wish you a 'Appy New Year, if you care for the kibosh, old Chappie, / Though 'taint 'Igh Art Cards full o' gush and green paint 'll make you and me 'appy. / Wot we want is lucre and larks, love and lotion as much as you'll carry!”

“Gar'n! Gives me the 'ump, all this kibosh 'bout morals, and taste, and all that.”

“She was, in very Sooth, among the highest of the Rollers, but Hiram stood for the Bills with nary a Whimper. He was proud to be the Husband of the Lady Ki-Bosh of the Local Knickerbockers.”

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