kosher
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5.8
- adjective
- /ˈkoʊʃər/
- Informal
- To be considered trustworthy, all of his actions needed to be kosher.
- look kosher
- exactly kosher
- definitely kosher
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Watch on YouTubeBut no, I mean, everything's been, I'm pretty kosher with all of it.
- But no, I mean, everything's been, I'm pretty kosher with all of it.
- All right, drove home and thought everything was kosher.
- But to go after someone personally like that, that was not kosher.
- Like it's just one slit and it doesn't look quite kosher.
- It's it's kind of arguably philosophically more, you know, reasonable and kosher.
- All right, Next up, Tesla is, as you can imagine, the books are not kosher.
- And they did their meet and greet and found out that everything is super kosher.
- And I got to get up in the morning and I got to evaluate what's going on before I can attach myself to the rest of the world or things ain't gonna be real kosher.
Examples
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The business practices were entirely kosher and respected by the community.
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It's perfectly kosher.
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Everything is kosher, as my people say.
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"It's not considered kosher," Sam said.
Fiction book (1998) -
And I'm like, "Okay, fine, as long as it's kosher."
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Seems pretty kosher to me, brah.
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Now, look, everything's got to be kosher.
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It's 100% kosher.
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According to the subtle unwritten rules of office politics, headphones are kosher, earplugs are not.
Blog text (11) -
So here, it seemed, was a certificate that my project was kosher: Lacan, one of the most eminent poststructuralist theorists.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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3.8
Something that is real and trustworthy, not a fake
126
7.7
Real and legal, for example a job or website
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5.9
Being real and honest, not fake
Seeming honest and acceptable in a deal or agreement
Antonyms
Compounds
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5.3
A label on food that shows it follows Jewish rules about what you can eat
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3.2
Food prepared according to Jewish religious rules so people who follow them can eat it
- Slur
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9.9
A group of Jewish American criminals who worked together in organized crime in the early 1900s
How Legitimate
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3.8
563
4.2
- Informal
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5.8
162
3.9
- Informal
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5.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kosher comes from the Hebrew word kashér, meaning 'fit' or 'proper'. So in English, calling something kosher means it is 'legitimate' or 'acceptable' because it follows the rules and can be trusted.