Meanings
kaki1
kaki2
plural kakis
- SinglishA close friend, or group of friends with a shared common interest.
My usual mahjong kaki.
2000, Dennis Wee, Sylvia Fong, Making Luck with Your Hands, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore, page 592 more examples
He has his posse of stylist-kakis.
2000 July 2, Yeow Kai Chai, The Sunday Times (Sunday Plus), quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page 5That’s why gang members always move as a group, because when your group is big … when your enemy sees you with many kakis [peers], they will also think want to attack you or not […]
2023, Narayanan Ganapathy, quoting an Omega gang member, Gangs and Minorities in Singapore: Masculinity, Marginalization and Resistance, Bristol University Press, →ISBN, page 127
kaki3
- misspellingMisspelling of khaki.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounsmall deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit
nounblackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
kaki · noun
- Malaykaki“legs, feet, accomplices”
- Englishkaki
From Malay kaki (“legs, feet, accomplices”). Unrelated to Hokkien and Teochew 家己人 (ka-kī-lâng / ga¹ gi⁷ nang⁵, “one of us”).
More words from Malay
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan caqui
- caquipersimmon
Chinese 柿子
- 柿子 (shìzi)persimmon
Czech kaki
- kakipersimmon
Esperanto kakinoko
- kakinokopersimmon
French plaqueminier, kaki
- plaqueminierpersimmon
- kakipersimmon
German Kaki, Kakipflaume
- Kakipersimmon
- Kakipflaumepersimmon
Italian cachi
- cachipersimmon
Japanese 柿
- 柿 (kaki)persimmon
Korean 감
- 감 (gam)persimmon
Polish kaki
- kakipersimmon
Russian хурма́
- хурма́ (xurmá)persimmon
Vietnamese hồng
- hồngpersimmon
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with kaki
All rhymes →Sounds the same
Cite this entry
kaki. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kaki
“kaki.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kaki. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kaki,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kaki.
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