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noun

• a person from New Zealand.

  Some of her Kiwi friends are coming to visit this weekend.

  Last edited on Dec 16 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.

• a testicle. Usually used in the plural.

  Take a drink of that. It'll put hair on your kiwis.

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  Last edited on Dec 16 2013. Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 16 2013.

interjection

• an emphatic "Okay," via a doubled "k".

  Person A: be there tonight, right?
  
  Person B: kk.

  • See more words with the same meaning: Internet, texting, SMS, email, chat acronyms (list of).

  Last edited on Aug 23 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 23 2012.

noun

• jail or prison. A spelling variant of the clink.
  • See more words with the same meaning: jail (related to).

  Last edited on Jan 08 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.

• derogatory and/or short name for the Klingon race in Star Trek Online, a massive multi-player online game. May be derived from the character Colonel Klink in the television series Hogan's Heroes.

  My alt is a Klink.

  Kill the Klinks!

  • See more words with the same meaning: miscellaneous insults (list of).

  Last edited on Jan 08 2013. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 01 2013.

noun

• a poorly constructed (but valid) solution to a problem or task.
  • See more words with the same meaning: a mess.
  • See more words with the same meaning: broken.
  • See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.

  Last edited on Sep 28 2009. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.

verb - transitive

• to use one or more kludges (as described in the noun sense) to solve a problem.

  I didn't have time to fix it the right way, so I had to kludge it.

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  Last edited on Nov 10 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.

notes

• Also spelled kluge.

  Last edited on Nov 10 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.