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beginning with letter K
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keg
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noun
  1. A round wooden container that has a flat top and bottom, often used to store beer.
KG
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initialism
  1. Knight of the Garter
kilderkin
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noun
  1. A small barrel.
  2. An old English liquid measure, usually being half a barrel; containing 18 English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure.
    Quotations
    • 1882: 23 Hen. VIII, cap. 4... The barrel of beer is to hold 36 gallons, the kilderkin 18 gallons the firkin 9. But the barrel, kilderkin, and firkin of ale are to contain 32, 16, and 8 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205.
kilo
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noun
  1. Short form of kilogram.
  2. The letter K in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
kiloton
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noun
  1. a measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many thousand tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
    • That's a 300-kiloton nuclear warhead.
kip
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noun
  1. (context, colloquial, informal) sleep, Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze, siesta.
    • I"m just going for my afternoon .
      1. (obsolete) Piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
      2. Very untidy house or room.
      3. A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons) or sometimes equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
      4. (context, gymnastics) A move or maneuver from below the equipment to above it.
      5. The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol â‚­.
verb (kip, p, ing)
  1. To sleep.
    • Don"t worry, I"ll on the sofabed.
kl
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abbreviation
  1. kilolitre, kiloliter
KM
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initialism
  1. Knowledge Management
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