"ki-ki" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} ki-ki
  1. Alternative form of kiki (“lesbian who is neither butch nor femme”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: kiki (extra: lesbian who is neither butch nor femme)
    Sense id: en-ki-ki-en-noun-om9uVUjO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1996, Frontiers, page 48",
          "text": "We joked about reversal of expectations : 'Get a butch home and she turns over on her back.' But from all other reports, seriousness and the placing of implicit delimitations underlay the jokes. Lorde spoke of the stigma of being ki-ki (someone who changed her erotic role of butch or fem depending on her partner) in the Greenwich Village, New York, 1950s bar scene.",
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