kiss-off

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kiss-off

(kĭs′ôf′, -ŏf′)

n. Slang

A dismissal, as from a job.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

kiss′-off`

Slang. an unceremonious or rude dismissal.

[1930–35]

Translations

kiss-off

[ˈkɪsɒf] (US) N to give sth the kiss-off → tirar algo, despedirse de algo
to give sb the kiss-off (= employee) → poner a algn de patitas en la calle, despedir a algn; (= boyfriend) → plantar a algn, dejar a algn

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

kiss-off

n (US inf) to give somebody the kiss-off → jdn in die Wüste schicken (inf); boyfriend etc → jdm den Laufpass geben (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

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