kew

plural kews

1. The name of the Latin script letter Q/q.

   "As usual I got me pees an' kews mixed up."

   2016, Michael Moorcock, The Condition of Muzak, Titan Publishing

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   The following telegram with explain this: "Your suggestion approved stop the troops proceeding to ex those to wye and zed and the detachment at kew must be completed to ten days rations."

   1908, Richard Cyril Byrne Haking, Staff Rides and Regimental Tours, London: Hugh Rees, page 305

   the pardonable confusion for which some blame the cudgel and more blame the soot but unthanks to which the pees with their caps awry are quite as often as not taken for kews with their tails in their or are quite as often as not taken for pews with their tails in their mouths

   1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber

1. abbreviationclippinginformaluncommonClipping of thank you.

   ‘Kew,’ she said politely, and then took off, expertly negotiating the narrow aisles between the stalls.

   2013, F. E. Higgins, A Tangle of Traitors (The Phenomenals; 1), London: Macmillan Children's Books, →ISBN, page 28

1. uncountableIn American Chinese cuisine, meat in small curling pieces.

   fish kew

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   shrimp kew

   steak kew

1. A suburban area and former village in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1977).

   Kew is best known as the location of the Royal Botanic Gardens, now a World Heritage Site, and the National Archives.

2. metonymicallyKew Gardens.
3. A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
4. An eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

plural KEWs

1. abbreviationacronymengineeringAcronym of kinetic energy weapon.