kiki

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noun

ki·​ki ˈkē-kē 

plural kikis

slang

: a fun casual gathering among close friends especially to share lively gossip or frank conversation

Kikis are great excuses to see one another and keep up to date on the actual goings on of those around you.

—Greg Jacobs

also : a chat typically involving such gossip or conversation

… we need to have a kiki about the new League of their Own series …

—@ratrusty, on Instagram

… I thought why not have a kiki with Chyna and chat about her career as a drag queen …

—Paige Turner

… we have a lot of fun, a lot of kikis and girl talk …

—Lesa Milan, quoted in Essence

kiki

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verb

kikied; kikiing; kikis

intransitive verb

: to have a chat especially to share lively gossip or frank conversation : to engage in a kiki

Let's kiki about dating app/site algorithms real quick: could there be racial … biases against us?

—@redditasa, on Reddit

I come out here to kiki with the girls. There are more gay people, more open people [than in my neighborhood]. I can come here and express myself, and not be judged.

—Jamel, quoted in Gay City News

We have so much fun when we're just the two of us kikiing and hanging out.

—Garcelle Beauvais, quoted at CheatSheet.com

In navigating Halperin's … arguments from psychoanalysis to aesthetics to erotics to politics … I sometimes wished that instead Halperin and I could have just kikied about his points over a cocktail.

—J. Bryan Lowder

Word History

Etymology

Noun

of uncertain origin

Verb

derivative of kiki entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

circa 2012, in the meaning defined above

Verb

circa 2012, in the meaning defined above