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THESAURUS

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kibosh

POS

Noun, Verb (transitive)

HYPHEN

ki=bosh

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb kibosh has 1 sense

kibosh(v = verb.social) block, halt, stop - stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

is one way to forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

kibosh, n.

Nonsense; stuff; also, fashion; style. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Portland cement when thrown or blown into the recesses of carved stonework to intensify the shadows.

To put the kibosh on, to dispose of; to squelch; to terminate; put an end to; to do for. [Slang]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

kibosh, n. (also kybosh) sl. nonsense.

Idiom

put the kibosh on put an end to; finally dispose of.

Etymology

19th c.: orig. unkn.

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THESAURUS

kibosh

KO, bugger, call off, cancel, complete, cripple, de-energize, debilitate, delete, disable, disenable, dispose of, drain, drop the curtain, end off, enfeeble, expunge, extinguish, finalize, finish, fold up, get it over, get over with, get through with, give the quietus, hamstring, hors de combat, inactivate, incapacitate, kayo, kill, knock out, lame, maim, perfect, polish off, put, put paid to, queer, queer the works, sabotage, scrag, shoot down, spike, unfit, weaken, wing, wipe out, wreck, zap