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kissing cousin

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a kissing cousin (old-fashioned)
someone you are related to but not very closely. I didn't realize she knew Tony, but in fact, they're kissing cousins.
See also: kiss


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But like kissing cousin Jack Johnson, Jorge isn't afraid of being topical - one song here decries the prevalence of silicone breast implants, another the harsh realities of the slum poverty seen in ``City of God.
Behind all the rhetorical malarkey about the free market and its cultural kissing cousin, America's radical individualism, is a blunt refusal to respond to that difficult, dogged question asked by a guy named Cain, lo these many years ago: "Am I my brother's keeper?
We have yet to hear whatever misgivings his academic colleagues may retain about bestiality or about Singer's benignly nonchalant account of it, but, all in all, this is a pretty impressive achievement for a creature that has discovered itself to be, genetically speaking, kissing cousin to a goat.
 
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