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K-Bar also given as Kbar, Ka-Bar or KA-BAR is the name of a combat and utility knife adopted during World War II by the United States Marine Corps as the 1219C2 combat Knife. Later redesignated as USMC Mark 2 Combat Knife, the knife was also adopted by the US Navy as the US Navy Utility Knife, Mark 2. Besides being the name of the knife, k-bar can also be used as a verb, so if you k-bar someone, you kill them with a k-bar knife and someone killed in this way can be described as having been k-barred.

Kiss up kick down is a neologism, believed to have originated in the United States, which describes the situation where employees in an organisation are polite superiors to the point of sycophancy but abusive and unpleasant to subordinates. The people who do this are often those who do not have the ability to progress further and try to take out their frustrations on others as they lack the courage to try something new. They are usually bullies who are scared of competition, change and anything else that they see as a threat.

English slang expression which can be used as a noun or a verb:
1 Knock off (noun), an item intended to look like something it is not, such as an expensive watch or designer clothes.
Knock off (verb) can have a number of meanings depending on context:
2 to stop working for a short break;
3 to leave work at the end of the day;
4 to steal or remove;
5 to kill or severely chastise someone;
6 to try to get close to someone for romance or casual sex;

Overpriced American crap masquerading as doughnuts. The price is ridiculous, the taste is disgusting and they are usually eaten by people with no sense of taste. Coming in numerous “flavours”, presumably to get people to continue trying them to find one that tastes other than sickeningly sweet. The company was founded by Vernon Rudolf in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1937 and has gone worldwide and downhill ever since. Apart from its revolting products the company is also well-known for its IPO and accounting scandals and is very quick to slope shoulders and drop the blame on someone. At the time of writing interest has been shown in its acquisition by the private German investment company JAB Beech, interesting as the company appears to have no outlets in Germany and, if they’ve got any sense, it never will have.

American slang dating back to the time of the old west. It was used by people who were established in frontier towns to describe someone new, either to the area or the prevailing conditions; someone lacking experience and who was perhaps a little naive. Mildly disparaging but without any real malice it is still used occasionally to describe someone who is just starting out on their chosen career.

This was originally an acronym used by medical staff standing for Totally Fucked But Unfortunately Not Dead Yet. It can be used to describe a number of different types of patient:
1. Those patients who have a long-term medical condition which requires the expenditure of a great deal of time, effort and resources.
2. Those patients who are quite literally dying or in a Persistent Vegetative State or PSV.
3. Those patients who, although they may have a serious medical condition, are a total pain in the ass
Believed to have started in America, the use of this acronym has become widespread.

This is a phrase coined by C Haddon Chambers and it can be taken to mean either :-
1. The broad far-reaching power or influence of coincidence;
or
2. Things just happen;
Note: See also Shit Happens