kiss A kiss is the touch or pressing of one's lips against another person or an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, romance, sexual attraction, ...

is a touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as part of a greeting. Kiss, Kisses, KISS, or K.I.S.S. may also refer to:

Books

* ''Kiss'' (comics), any of several comics featuring the rock band * ''Kiss'' (Irish magazine), for teens * ''Kiss'' (Japanese magazine), a manga magazine * ''Kiss'' (Wilson novel), a 2007 young adult novel * ''Kiss'' (Dekker novel), 2009 *''Kiss Trilogy'', a series of novels by

Debbie Viguié Debbie Viguié (born 1973) is an American author, known for co-writing the ''Wicked'' series with Nancy Holder Nancy Holder (born August 29, 1953) is an American writer and the author of several novels, including numerous tie-in books based ...

Organisations

Keep It Straight and Simple Party The Keep It Straight and Simple Party (known simply as the KISS Party) is a minor South African Classical liberalism, classical liberal political party. It was founded by Claire C. Gaisford in 1994, when the first nonracial democratic elections ...

, a minor political party in South Africa * KISS NB, a minor political party in the Canadian province of New Brunswick * Kiss Baking Company Limited, in Trinidad * KISS (brand), a brand from a Japanese adult video game company

Computing

KISS (TNC) KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is a protocol for communicating with a serial terminal node controller (TNC) device used for amateur radio. This allows the TNC to combine more features into a single device and standardizes communications. KISS was dev ...

, a protocol used with amateur radio terminal node controllers * Kiss Technology, a Danish entertainment technology company *

Kisekae Set System Kisekae Set System (commonly known as KiSS) is a blending of art with computers originally designed to allow creation of virtual "paper dolls". Kisekae is short for "kisekae ningyou"; a Japanese term meaning "dress-up dolls". Unlike "computer art" ...

(KiSS), software for blending art and computers *

KISS (algorithm) KISS ( Keep it Simple Stupid) is a family of pseudorandom number generators introduced by George Marsaglia. Starting from 1998 Marsaglia posted on various newsgroups including sci.math, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.fortran and sci.stat.math several v ...

, a family of pseudo-random number generators *

Kissing number In geometry, the kissing number of a mathematical space is defined as the greatest number of non-overlapping unit spheres that can be arranged in that space such that they each touch a common unit sphere. For a given sphere packing (arrangement of ...

(in math, number of non overlapping spheres touching one other sphere)

Film and television

* ''Kiss'' (1963 film), directed by Andy Warhol * ''Kiss'' (2013 film), a Telugu romantic comedy directed by Adivi Sesh * ''Kiss'' (2019 film), a Kannada film directed by A. P. Arjun * ''Kisses'' (2008 film), an Irish drama directed by Lance Daly *

Kisses (1922 film) ''Kisses'' is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Maxwell Karger and starring Alice Lake, Harry Myers and Edward Connelly.Munden p.409 Cast * Alice Lake as Betty Ellen Estabrook * Harry Myers as Bill Bailey * Edward Connelly as T ...

, an American silent comedy film *'' Kiss: The Series'', a 2016 Thai television series *

Kiss TV Kiss TV is a commercial hip-hop and dance music television channel owned by Channel Four Television , with permission to use the Kiss brand from Bauer Media Audio UK. The playlist predominantly consists of old skool and mainstream hip-hop, ...

, a UK music channel

Music

Bands

* Kiss (band), an American hard rock/heavy metal group *

Kiss (South Korean group) Kiss (Korea International Super Star, stylized as KISS) was a South Korean female pop trio. Their debut single "Because I'm a Girl" () was a 2001 hit.

, a female pop trio *

Kisses (band) Kisses is a new wave pop rock duo from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2010. The band consists of Jesse Kivel (vocals/lead guitarist) and Zinzi Edmundson (instrumentals/keyboardist). The duo released their debut album ''The Heart of the Nightli ...

, a duo from Los Angeles, California

Albums

* ''Kiss'' (Kiss album), 1974 * ''Kiss'' (Bad Boys Blue album) *''Kiss'', a 2000 album by

Les Wampas Les Wampas () are a French punk rock/psychobilly band, who refer more exactly to their music as " Yé-yé-punk". The band was formed in Paris in 1983. History :''See also Discography'' The band's first album, ''Tutti Frutti'' was released in 1 ...

* ''Kiss'' (L'Arc-en-Ciel album), 2007 *'' K.I.S.S. (Keep It Sexy & Simple)'', a 2011 studio album by Mýa * ''Kiss'' (Carly Rae Jepsen album), 2012 * ''Kisses'' (album), 2019, by Anitta *''K.I.S.S'', 2020, by

twlv Jo Hyun-soo (; born September 29, 1993), better known by his stage name twlv (, pronounced "twelve"), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer. He began his music career by uploading songs onto music sharing website SoundCloud an ...

EPs

* ''Kiss'' (The Orb EP), 1989 * ''Kiss'' (London After Midnight EP), 1995 * ''Kiss'' (Versailles EP), 2003 * ''Kiss'' (Chara EP), 2008

Songs and music pieces

*"Kiss", a 1953 Dean Martin song * "Kiss" (Prince song), 1986 * "Kiss" (Princess Princess song), 1991 *"

Kiss (When the Sun Don't Shine) "Kiss (When the Sun Don't Shine)" is a song by Dutch Eurodance group Vengaboys. It was released in November 1999 as the lead single from their third studio album, '' The Platinum Album'' (2000). The song reached number one on the New Zealand Si ...

", by the Vengaboys, 1999 * "Kiss" (Mai Kuraki song), 2003 * "Kiss" (Korn song), 2008 * "Kiss" (Dara song), 2009 * Kuss-Walzer, or "Kiss Waltz", composed by Johann Strauss II

Other media

*'' Kiss: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child'', a 2000 first-person shooter * Kiss FM (disambiguation), any of several radio stations *

Kiss Network The Kiss Network is a network of radio stations in the United Kingdom, owned by Bauer Media Audio UK, focusing on the 15-34 age group. According to RAJAR, the network broadcasts to a combined weekly audience of 4.2 million with a listening sha ...

, a UK radio network

Products

Kisses (confectionery) Kisses is a term used in the United States and Canada to describe various items of small sugar confectionery, defined by their shape rather than a similar recipe. The most famous brand using this name is Hershey's Kisses, which were first produced ...

, in Britain and North America, various items of small confectionery **

Hershey's Kisses Hershey's Kisses is a brand of chocolate first produced by the Hershey Company in 1907. The bite-sized pieces of chocolate have a distinctive conical shape, sometimes described as flat-bottomed teardrops. Hershey's Kisses chocolates are wrapped i ...

, a chocolate candy *Kiss, a line of consumer-level

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cameras in the Japanese market since 1993

Transportation

Celier Kiss The Celier Kiss is a series of Polish autogyros that was designed by Frenchman Raphael Celier and produced by his company, Celier Aviation of Jaktorów-Kolonia, Poland. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur cons ...

, a Polish gyroplane * Stadler KISS, a train

University

* Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences,

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based Exclusive Tribal University.

Other uses

* Kiss (surname) * DJ Kiss, American DJ, television personality, and fashion model *

Kisses Delavin Kirsten Danielle Tan Delavin (; born May 1, 1999), popularly known as Kisses Delavin, is a Filipinos, Filipino former actress, beauty queen, and recording artist. She first gained fame in 2016 as a contestant in the reality television series, ...

(born 1999), Filipina actress and singer *Kiss, a term used in cue sports *

KISS principle KISS, an acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid!", is a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. First seen partly in American English by at least 1938, the KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather tha ...

, or "Keep it simple, stupid", the concept that most systems work better when kept simple *Kiss, a Brazilian nightclub destroyed in the

Kiss nightclub fire The Kiss nightclub fire started between 2:00 and 2:30 a.m. ( BRST) on 27 January 2013 in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, killing 245 people and injuring at least 630 others. It is the second most-devastating fire disaster in the history ...

Kiss (pinball) Kiss (band), Kiss-themed pinball machines were produced by Bally Manufacturing, Bally in 1979 and Stern (game company), Stern in 2015. There are also some pinball machine conversion kits, a Kiss pinball machine prototype and a ''Kiss Pinball, K ...

*'' Kiss II'', a 1962 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein *

Kiss (cryptanalysis) In cryptanalysis, a kiss is a pair of identical messages sent using different ciphers, one of which has been broken. The term was used at Bletchley Park during World War II. A deciphered message in the breakable system provided a " crib" (piece of ...

, in World War II codebreaking *''KISS 5'', 2020 album by

K Camp Kristopher Thomas Campbell (born April 27, 1990), better known by his stage name K Camp (stylized as K CAMP), is an American rapper from Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the ...