Kiss (disambiguation) explained

A kiss is a touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as part of a greeting.

Kiss, Kisses, KISS, or K.I.S.S. may also refer to:

Books

• Kiss (comics), any of several comics featuring the rock band
• Kiss (Irish magazine), for teens
• Kiss (Japanese magazine), a manga magazine
• Kiss (Wilson novel), a 2007 young adult novel
• Kiss (Dekker novel), 2009
• Kiss Trilogy, a series of novels by Debbie Viguié

Organisations

• Keep It Straight and Simple Party, a minor political party in South Africa
• KISS NB, a minor political party in the Canadian province of New Brunswick
• Kiss Baking Company Limited, in Trinidad
• KISS (brand), a brand from a Japanese adult video game company

Computing

• KISS (amateur radio protocol), a protocol used with amateur radio terminal node controllers
• Kiss Technology, a Danish entertainment technology company
• Kisekae Set System (KiSS), software for blending art and computers
• KISS (algorithm), a family of pseudo-random number generators
• Kissing number (in math, number of non overlapping spheres touching one other sphere)

Film and television

• Kiss (1963 film), directed by Andy Warhol
• Kiss (2013 film), a Telugu romantic comedy directed by Adivi Sesh
• Kiss (2019 film), a Kannada film directed by A. P. Arjun
• Kisses (1922 film), an American silent comedy film
• Kisses (1957 film), a Japanese film by Yasuzō Masumura
• Kisses (2008 film), an Irish drama directed by Lance Daly
• , a 2016 Thai television series
• Kiss TV, a UK music channel

Music

Bands

• Kiss (band), an American hard rock/heavy metal group
• Kiss (South Korean group), a female pop trio
• Kisses (band), a duo from Los Angeles, California

Albums

• Kiss (Kiss album), 1974
• Kiss (Bad Boys Blue album)
• Kiss, a 2000 album by Les Wampas
• Kiss (L'Arc-en-Ciel album), 2007
• K.I.S.S. (Keep It Sexy & Simple), a 2011 studio album by Mýa
• Kiss (Carly Rae Jepsen album), 2012
• Kisses (album), 2019, by Anitta
• K.I.S.S, 2020, by twlv

EPs

• Kiss (The Orb EP), 1989
• Kiss (London After Midnight EP), 1995
• Kiss (Versailles EP), 2003
• Kiss (Chara EP), 2008

Songs and music pieces

• "Kiss", a 1953 Dean Martin song
• "Kiss" (Prince song), 1986
• "Kiss" (Princess Princess song), 1991
• "Kiss (When the Sun Don't Shine)", by the Vengaboys, 1999
• "Kiss" (Mai Kuraki song), 2003
• "Kiss" (Korn song), 2008
• "Kiss" (Dara song), 2009
• Kuss-Walzer, or "Kiss Waltz", composed by Johann Strauss II

Other media

• , a Japanese Transformers franchise
• , a 2000 first-person shooter
• Kiss FM (disambiguation), any of several radio stations
• Kiss Network, a UK radio network

Products

• Kisses (confectionery), in Britain and North America, various items of small confectionery
  • Hershey's Kisses, a chocolate candy
• Kiss, a line of consumer-level Canon EOS cameras in the Japanese market since 1993

Transportation

• Celier Kiss, a Polish gyroplane
• Stadler KISS, a train

Other uses

• Kiss (surname)
• DJ Kiss, American DJ, television personality, and fashion model
• Kisses Delavin (born 1999), Filipina actress and singer
• Kiss, a term used in cue sports
• KISS principle, or "Keep it simple, stupid", the concept that most systems work better when kept simple
• Kiss, a Brazilian nightclub destroyed in the Kiss nightclub fire
• Kiss (pinball)
• Kiss II, a 1962 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein
• Kiss (cryptanalysis), in World War II codebreaking
• Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, a higher education institute in Odisha, India

See also

• The Kiss (disambiguation)
• Kiss You (disambiguation)
• Kiss Me (disambiguation)
• Kissin (disambiguation)
• Kisspeptin or KISS1, a human gene