ki-ki

A form of kiki — A gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat.

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Meanings

noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of kiki (“lesbian who is neither butch nor femme”).

    Ignored, however, in previous and current discussions of roles among Lesbians is the "ki-ki."

    1992, Julia Penelope, Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory, page 89
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    We joked about reversal of expectations : 'Get a butch home and she turns over on her back.' But from all other reports, seriousness and the placing of implicit delimitations underlay the jokes. Lorde spoke of the stigma of being ki-ki (someone who changed her erotic role of butch or fem depending on her partner) in the Greenwich Village, New York, 1950s bar scene.

    1996, Frontiers, page 48
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