kissagram


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kissagram

or

kissogram

n
a greetings service in which a person is employed to present greetings by kissing the person celebrating
[C20: blend of kiss and telegram]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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kissagram

[ˈkɪsəˌgræm] Nbesograma m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

kissagram

[ˈkɪsəgræm] n baiser envoyé à l'occasion d'une célébration par l'intermédiaire d'une personne employée à cet effetkiss of death n (= guarantee of failure) to be the kiss of death for ... → être l'échec assuré pour ...kiss of life n (British)bouche à bouche m
to give sb the kiss of life → faire du bouche à bouche à qn
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But, before that, he trained as a hotel manager, ran a stall in Paddy's Market, and founded one of the UK's first kissagram companies (Champagne a Gram).
UNDIE ARREST The star looks away as the kissagram gyrates
In her own words, "I smoke, I drink, I eat red meat by the pound, and I don't like being told what to do by bullies!" She was feisty, all right: during the Mad Cow Disease scare she had herself photographed hacking into a banned beef-on-the-bone joint and plastered it all over her column below the headline 'This Mad Cow Got Away With It!' On another occasion she and her boss, News of the World editor Patsy Chapman, arrived for a colleague's leaving party at the famously sniffy Savoy Hotel wearing long winter overcoats and big hats to conceal their skimpy kissagram costumes, schoolgirl pigtails and fishnet tights.
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The 26-year-old kissagram ex-fiancAe of Darren Day perhaps appeared out of place as she basqued in the company of guests like George Michael, Dale Winton and David's comic partner Matt Lucas.
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A member of staff at Holloway women's jail was suspended after a camera allowed into the prison recorded evidence of a riotous party during which one inmate dressed up as a kissagram.
Some of the show's more straitlaced long-term fans even complained that the BBC were "shamelessly sexing up" Dr Who after she wore a saucy police kissagram outfit on her debut.
While Tre's team were selling their voices, teamleader Naomi and her group decided they had nothing much left to sell other than their souls - and so set up their own 'kissagram' business.
Gadsby, a club barman who ran two kissagram agencies from home, refused to call police when his wife said she was worried.
She said: "He arrived in an American police officer's hat, dark glasses and a suit and everyone thought he was a kissagram.