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Definition: Kiss Of Death |
Kiss Of DeathNoun1. Something that is ruinous; "if this were known it would be the kiss of death for my political career". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Kiss of Death is a 1994 crime/detective drama that is a remake of the 1947 film of the same name.Jimmy Kilmartin (David Caruso) is ex-con living in Astoria, New York, in the borough of Queens, trying to stay clean. But when his cousin makes him take a fall for a heist, he lands back in prison. In order to get a early release, he works with a detective (Samuel L. Jackson) to bring down a local gangster boss.
It bombed at the box office and was nominated for a Razzie (worst movies) award.
The cast:
- David Caruso--Jimmy Kilmartin
- Samuel L. Jackson--Calvin Hart
- Nicolas Cage--Little Junior
- Helen Hunt--Bev Kilmartin
- Kathryn Erbe--Rosie
- Ving Rhames--Omar
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Screenplays | It's the kiss of death. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I know Big Vinny said he was giving me the Kiss of Death, but I still think he's gay. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Kiss of Death (1995) Witchcraft III: The Kiss of Death (1991) Kiss of Death (1977) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
kiss of death | 32 |
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| Language | Translations for "kiss of death"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Swedish | dödsstöt (death blow, quietus). (various references) | |
Thai | สาเหตุขà¸à¸‡à¸„วามล้มเหลวหรืà¸à¸ˆà¸¸à¸"จบขà¸à¸‡à¸šà¸²à¸‡à¸ªà¸´à¹ˆà¸‡. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-h-i-k-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: toadfishes. | |
-2 letters: softheads. | |
-3 letters: dashiest, kathodes, shadiest, shakiest, softhead, stokesia, toadfish. | |
-4 letters: ashiest, dakoits, deafish, disseat, faithed, fatsoes, fiestas, fissate, foisted, fossate, hoisted, hokiest, iodates, kathode, ketosis, shafted, shakoes, shifted, softies, softish, stashed, toadies, toadish. | |
-5 letters: asides, daises, dakoit, dashes, dashis, dassie, deaths, defats, deists, desist, dhotis, dishes, faiths, fashed, fashes, fasted, fatsos, feasts, feists. | |
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