"KA" meaning in English

See KA in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: En-au-KA.ogg [Australia] Forms: KAs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} KA (plural KAs)
  1. (slang, law enforcement) Initialism of known associate. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang Alternative form of: known associate Categories (topical): Law enforcement, People

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (9d9fc81 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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