Usually means: Action signaling inevitable failure, doom.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word kiss of death:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. kiss of death: Merriam-Webster
  2. kiss of death: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kiss of death: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kiss of death: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kiss of death: Vocabulary.com
  6. kiss of death: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. kiss of death: Wiktionary
  8. kiss of death: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. kiss of death: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. kiss of death: Dictionary.com
  11. Kiss Of Death, Kiss of Death (Get Smart), Kiss of Death (Jadakiss album), Kiss of Death (Motorhead album), Kiss of Death (TV drama), Kiss of Death (song), Kiss of Death, Kiss of death (firearm), Kiss of death (mafia), Kiss of death, The Kiss of Death (novel), The Kiss of Death (sculpture): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. kiss of death: Rhymezone
  13. kiss of death: FreeDictionary.org
  14. kiss of death: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. kiss of death: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kiss of death: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kiss of Death(Album), Kiss of Death (album), Kiss of Death (disambiguation), Kiss of Death (film), kiss of death: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the kiss of death: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kiss of death: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (kiss of death)

noun:  A kiss on the cheek that signifies the death of the receiver, as delivered by a mob boss or one with such influence.
noun:  (informal, idiomatic) Something that may seem good and favourable but that actually brings ruin to hopes, plans, etc.

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