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ki

nounnounnounnounattested in dialogue

  • //kiː//

A plant native to the Pacific islands and China (Cordyline fruticosa); ti.

noun

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    A plant native to the Pacific islands and China (Cordyline fruticosa); ti.

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian kī.

noun

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    Variant of keyAlternative form of key (a kilogram)

    And that's what I think happened to Joe. Someone who worked for him walked in and asked to buy a ki of heroin and he went, 'I don't do that.' Then a bit later someone else walked in and offered to sell him some a ta stupid price and he went, 'Hang about, I've got a buyer for that.'

    But the buzz wasn't enough, though. It's nothing like the feeling you get with a hundred kis of heroin in the boot of your car.

    Hopefully, she would be able to save up just enough to buy her own half a ki of coke. And from there, the sky would be the limit.

noun

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    Variant of kyeslangAlternative form of kye (“cocoa”).

    At sea a special cauldron of 'ki,' prepared by the ship's cook, is sent round action stations in 'fannies' or large pitchers.

noun

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    Variant of chiAlternative form of chi.

    If you are calm and relaxed it will be easier for you to accept and use his ki, helping him to reach his goal. In other words, you will redirect his ki or enhance it with your own to bring your attacker down in the direction he was directing his ki.

Etymology

From dated romanizations of Mandarin 氣 /气 (qì) without the k-q merger, or from Japanese 気 (ki), both ultimately from the same Middle Chinese origin.

Forms

plural
kis
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).