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☆ kissing cousin

  1. a distant relative known well enough to greet with a friendly kiss
  2. someone or something closely akin to another

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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