air kiss

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air kiss

A facial expression in which the lips are pursed as if kissing.

air′-kiss′ v.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

air kiss

a kissing gesture, esp one directed towards a person's cheek, made without making physical contact

to make such a gesture towards a person

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

air′ kiss`

a pursing of the lips in a pretended kiss, as when parting on the telephone or touching cheeks in greeting.

[1985–90]

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