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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'kid on the square' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions kid on the square verb (inf=to kid on the square, kids on the square, kidding on the square, kidded on the square) To be joking, but at the same time really mean it. 1907, Alfred Damon Runyon, "The Defense of Strikerville" in McClure?'s Magazine vol. 28 http://books.google.com/books?id=z4l7AdAwEIYC, page 379: "I'm kiddin' on the square," said Hanks. 1977, Dan Rather and Mickey Herskowitz, The Camera Never Blinks http://books.google.com/books?id=ZMsQob3ZSSAC, ISBN 0688031846, page 66: So I always knew what Pierce meant, in a kidding-on-the-square kind of way. 2006, Stuart Ostrow, Present at the Creation http://books.google.com/books?id=IkVyEUE3QXYC, ISBN 1557836469, page 46: "At least he likes historical characters," I kidded on the square. No one laughed so I went to work recruiting other directors. Etymology: Although dating back to the early 20th century, the phrase was popularized by w:Al Franken, Al Franken in his book w:Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them when he describes the negative reaction of w:Paul Wolfowitz, Paul Wolfowitz to one of his jokes.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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