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Kiss mark
Answer for the clue "Kiss mark ", 6 letters:
hickey
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US slang English) A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking. 2 (context informal slang English) an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled. 3 (context printing English) ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A hickey , kiss mark , love bite , or bug bite is a bruise or bruise-like mark caused by the kissing or sucking of the skin , usually on the neck or arm . While biting might be part of giving a hickey, sucking is sufficient to burst small superficial blood ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see hickie .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hickey \hick"ey\, hickie \hick"ie\n. (Elec.) A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for mounting in an outlet box, or on a pipe. A red mark on the skin, caused by a passionate, sucking kiss at that location. [slang] a doohickey . [informal]
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne [syn: pimple ] a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover [syn: love bite ] something whose name is either forgotten or ...
Usage examples of hickey.
As Huey studied the little house, Joe Hickey climbed out of the truck.
When he reached the playhouse, he looked around blankly at Hickey, then folded his giant frame into a squat.
Joe Hickey was sitting calmly at the kitchen table, drinking from one of the glasses of tea.
Karen forced back fresh tears, unwilling to give Hickey the satisfaction of seeing them.
She tossed it onto the table beside Hickey, cracking one of the white tiles of its surface.
She watched Hickey closely, trying to get a handle on the man beneath the bluster.
She felt a frightening energy radiating from Hickey, a sort of survival desperation.
The Expedition jounced and jumped along rutted ground beneath black trees, Hickey sitting stiff behind the wheel.
She was terrified that Hickey would wreck the Expedition before they reached Abby.
As she threw up her hand to shield her eyes, Hickey stopped the Expedition and blinked the headlights twice.
She was halfway there when Hickey cracked her on the back of the head with what felt like a hammer, sending her sprawling onto the hard dirt.
That meant Abby was being held somewhere south of Jackson and west of 1-55, if Hickey had taken that interstate.
As Hickey laughed, she arranged the tail of her blouse so that it fell into her lap.
She could endure the worst that an animal like Hickey could dish out, and be there to hug Abby when it was over.
And about why Hickey had chosen to spend the night with Karen rather than with him.