Usually means: Traditional dagger from Southeast Asia.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. k'ris, kris: Merriam-Webster
  2. kris: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kris: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kris: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kris: Vocabulary.com
  6. Kris, kris: Wordnik
  7. Kris, kris: Wiktionary
  8. kris: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. kris: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. kris: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. kris: Dictionary.com
  12. kris: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Kris (Romani court), Kris (TV series), Kris (disambiguation), Kris (horse), Kris (name), Kris: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Kris: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. kris: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. kris: Rhymezone
  17. Kris: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. kris: FreeDictionary.org
  19. kris: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. kris: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kris: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kris: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. KRIS: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kris, the kris: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. KRIS: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Kris)

▸ noun:  A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To stab with a kris.
▸ verb:  To prank.
▸ noun:  A diminutive of the female given names Kristina, Kristin, Kristine and related given names (Christina, etc).
▸ noun:  A diminutive of the male given names Christopher, Christian, and related given names.

Similar:
keris, kalis, karambit, kerambit, kampilan, kujang, parang, kleywang, kukri, sundang, more...

Opposite:
anar, anarki

Types:
keris, creese, crees, more...

Phrases:
Kris Kristofferson, Kris Kringle, kringle, kris, kringle kris, Kris Allen, more...

Adjectives:
malay, javanese, bloody, long, own, magic, sacred, late, drawn, royal, sharp

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Similar:
keris, kalis, karambit, kerambit, kampilan, kujang, parang, kleywang, kukri, sundang, more...

Opposite:
anar, anarki

Types:
keris, creese, crees, more...

Phrases:
Kris Kristofferson, Kris Kringle, kringle, kris, kringle kris, Kris Allen, Kris Jenner, Deaths of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon, Kris Humphries, Kris Kross, Kris Marshall, Kris Kobach, Kris Bryant, Kris Aquino, more...

Adjectives:
malay, javanese, bloody, long, own, magic, sacred, late, drawn, royal, sharp

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     black,     red,     blue, more...



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