Meaning

noun a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value

noun a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float

noun plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string

originUncertain; possibly: * from Middle English kit, kitte (“wooden bucket or tub; (figuratively) belly”), possibly from Middle Dutch kitte (“wooden vessel of hooped staves”) (modern Dutch kit (“metal can used mainly for coal”)), further etymology unknown; or * from Old Norse kýta (“bag, stomach (of a fish)”), from Proto-Germanic *kūtiz. * from Middle English *kid (attested only in compounds such as…

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