kissing cousin
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noun
See under kissing kin.
something closely related or very similar: a textile that is a kissing cousin to nylon.
Origin of kissing cousin
1First recorded in 1935–40
Words Nearby kissing cousin
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How to use kissing cousin in a sentence
Sex with the boss can also be seen as the kissing cousin of date rape.
I could not leave without kissing cousin Ruth good-bye, but this excited no suspicion, as it was a thing I did on every pretext.
Pharaoh's Broker | Ellsworth Douglass
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