Kit Kat

noun

A chocolate-covered wafer bar confection produced by Nestlé and Hershey.

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Meanings

nounKit Kat (plural Kit Kats)

plural Kit Kats

  1. A chocolate-covered wafer bar confection produced by Nestlé and Hershey.

    I looked around, visited a few more booths, and filled the free laminated folder I got from Scholastic with pencil erasers and tiny Kit Kats. Heavy with “gifts,” I decided to head home.

    2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 11

Origin

Brand name. Originally trademarked by the Rowntree's company in 1911. Apparently named after the Kit-Cat Club, which got its name from a local pastry chef, Christopher Catt/Catling (sources differ on the surname), who was nicknamed “Kit” and supplied the club with meat pies that he called “Kit-Cats”.

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APA

Kit Kat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kit%20Kat

MLA

“Kit Kat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kit%20Kat. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kit Kat,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kit%20Kat.

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