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Kriss

Kriss might refer to:

People
  • Eric Kriss, a musician, writer and business executive
  • Grigory Kriss, a Soviet Russian world champion épée fencer
  • Kriss Donald, a Scottish schoolboy, victim of a racially motivated murder
  • Kristina Kiss, a Canadian football (soccer) midfielder
Institute
  • Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
Miscellaneous
  • Kriss Kross, a type of fill-in puzzle
  • Kriss Super V, the action of the TDI Vector submachine gun.
  • Kris, an asymmetrical dagger in South East Asia. Both a weapon and spiritual object.
  • Krrish, an Indian movie from 2006.

Usage examples of "kriss".

The walls of the Dagger Bar were tastefully decorated with daggers, swords, knives, sabers, cutlasses, krisses, poniards, stilettos, rapiers, machetes and dirks, most of them contributed by well-traveled patrons who had brought them home from foreign ports.

What was that subtle, unidentified essence in the human make-up which occasionally caused Malaysians to run amok, foaming at the mouth, kriss in hand, intent on wholesale and unreasoning slaughter?

Malaysians to run amok, foaming at the mouth, kriss in hand, intent on wholesale and unreasoning slaughter?

Almost simultaneously Professor Maxon and Sing rushed into the living room to ascertain the cause of the wild alarm, while at the same instant Bududreen's assassins sprang through the door with upraised krisses, to be almost immediately followed by Muda Saffir's six Dyaks brandishing their long spears and wicked parangs.