kiss

Universal Words verb, noun verb 1 to touch sb with your lips as a greeting or as a sign of love, affection, sexual desire, etc: [V] They stood in a doorway kissing (= kissing each other). * Do people in Britain kiss when they meet? * [VN] Go and kiss your mother good night. * She kissed him on both cheeks. * He lifted the trophy up and kissed it. 2 [VN] (literary) to gently move or touch sth: The sunlight kissed the warm stones. IDIOMS kiss and tell a way of referring to sb talking publicly, usually for money, about a past sexual relationship with sb famous kiss sb's arse (BrE) (AmE kiss sb's ass) (!!!, slang) to be very nice to sb in order to persuade them to help you or to give you sth HELPNOTE A more polite way to express this is lick sb's boots. kiss sth better (spoken) to take away the pain of an injury by kissing it: Come here and let me kiss it better. kiss sth goodbye