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noun

Kibosh n.

Nonsense; stuff; also, fashion; style. (Slang)

Portland cement when thrown or blown into the recesses of carved stonework to intensify the shadows.

To put the kibosh on, to dispose of; to squelch; to terminate; put an end to; to do for. (Slang)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Kibosh" Quotes from Famous Books

... translated to him. 'Tell 'er we're picture-makers by special app'intment to the Queen and the Prince of Wales. Tell 'er we'll make 'er look like the sweetest old chocolate drop in the taffy-shop. Only be sure and say we must 'ave a day or so to work the spells and put on the kibosh.' ...

— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln

... Charity in female form. But this night's work was bad business. They know where the Russian is now; and if the game lasts long enough they'll reach the chief, find out who he is; and that'll put the kibosh on his usefulness here and abroad. Well, here's home, and no more lecture ...

— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath

... flat you create a vacuum!)—and here I've been going to the City Commercial School every afternoon for two solid hours, and studying like a dog every night—and here I've resigned from the Golf Club, and everything else but the Citizens—and if they do put the kibosh on Sunday shows, why I'll be elected to the Hohenzollern Club. And the cream of that joke is that Aunt Mirabelle's outfit'd get itself endowed for putting me out ...

— Rope • Holworthy Hall

... have been the robbers, and if one of 'em knew how to handle such things. So they called up the city, and asked questions. In that way they learned that there was a yegg who had been suspected of having been connected with several other jobs, though they never could just put the kibosh on him, and his name is Casper Blue, and one time he used to be an actor, and then became a pretty well-known flier, but in an accident he broke his arm, and had to give up his business. He was always a crooked sort of feller, and after that just boozed around, joined ...

— The Aeroplane Boys Flight - A Hydroplane Roundup • John Luther Langworthy

... "madames," the number of their "boarders" and the condition of the merchandise thrown upon the market. All that was necessary to make the Post's Bawdy-house Guide complete was the addition of rate- cards. On that little bit of journalistic "enterprise" the ICONOCLAST put a kibosh also, much to the satisfaction of every decent family in Harris county. Now the fecular sheet has found a new road to infamy—is advertising garters fit only to adorn the crummy underpinning of negro prostitutes. It does seem that the Post will ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann