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kiki

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈkiːkiː//

A gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat.

    Let's have a kiki / I wanna have a kiki / Lock the doors tight / Let's have a kiki

    Get on my knees and have a kiki with Jesus

  2. 2

    datedA lesbian who is neither butch nor femme.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:kiki.

Etymology

In the sense "lesbian who is neither butch nor femme", sometimes said to mean "neither-nor" in some language; related to kai kai (“sexual activity between drag queens”); see that entry for more. In the sense "a gathering for gossiping and chit-chat", perhaps imitative of giggling.

verb

  1. 1

    slangTo meet with friends without any agenda or goals.

    We spent a whole lot of time kiki'ing around—fooling around.

    Went home, changed for my show, kikied with Bruce and walked over to the apartment for my weekly meeting and Sally was just walking into the building from Sirius.

    “I still had my corporate job, so we would talk on GChat all day while I was at work,” says Olisa. (She’s still based in New York; Garner Valentine has since relocated to Georgia. Both are in their 30s.) “To the outside world, I was working diligently, but I was really kiki-ing with my friend.”

Forms

plural
kikis
past tense
kikied
past participle
kikied
present participle
kikiing, kiki-ing
third person singular
kikis
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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).