What does kmt mean in text?

Kiss my teeth. It's the typed version of sucking air through your teeth, a sound of annoyance, disbelief or dismissal.

What does kmt mean in UK slang?

The same: kiss my teeth. It comes from Caribbean speech and is common among Black British and wider London youth, usually at the end of an irritated message.

What does kmt mean in Jamaican slang?

Kiss my teeth, from the Jamaican phrase kiss teeth. In the eastern Caribbean the same gesture is more often called steups.

It can be. At a late bus it's just venting. Aimed at a person, kissing your teeth is a show of contempt, and many people take it as disrespect.

What does KMT mean in the Drake song?

The title is the abbreviation: kiss my teeth. The 2017 track with Giggs reached the UK top ten and introduced the letters to many listeners outside Britain.

How do you reply to kmt?

Often you don't need to. If it's aimed at a situation, agree. If it's aimed at you, the other person is annoyed, so an apology or an explanation is the reply.

kmt

[ kay-em-TEE ] /ˌkeɪ ɛm ˈti/ (typed; aloud people make the sound itself)

abbreviation · also used as interjection ("kmt" on its own as a reaction)

Kmt stands for "kiss my teeth." It is a typed version of the sharp sucking sound that signals annoyance or contempt in Caribbean and Black British speech.

kmt has 2 meanings. Jump to: [Kiss my teeth] [Not the party or the theory]

type abbreviation since 2013 seen on texting, twitter-x, snapchat, tiktok, irl status current

Can you still say it?

kmt is current: in active, unremarkable use. Safe to say right now.

What does kmt mean?

1.
Kiss my teeth: A typed stand-in for kissing or sucking your teeth: drawing air through the teeth to make a sharp sound of annoyance, contempt or dismissal. Written on its own or at the end of a message.
2.
Not the party or the theory: KMT is also the Kuomintang, a political party in Taiwan, and kinetic molecular theory in chemistry class. Neither is slang.

Kmt is a sound written down. Kissing your teeth means drawing air in through them to make a sharp, drawn-out hiss. In Caribbean and Black British speech that sound says a lot with no words: I'm annoyed, I don't believe you, I'm done with this. Kmt puts it in a text.

It usually closes a message. "Bus said 2 mins for the last 15 mins kmt." "You said that last week kmt." It can also stand alone as a reply, which is the texting version of making the sound and walking off.

It's stronger than it looks. Smh is weary disappointment. A tut is mild disapproval. Kissing your teeth is sharper, and aimed at a person it is rude. Among friends it's ordinary exasperation, mostly at buses, referees and people who leave you on read.

Aloud, nobody says the letters. People make the sound, or say "kiss my teeth." The expansion is also given as "kissing my teeth," and both are used.

Where did kmt come from?

The letters are new and the sound is old. Kissing or sucking the teeth is a gesture of annoyance known across the Caribbean, among Black Americans and in West Africa. A 1976 study by the linguists John and Angela Rickford describes suck-teeth as stronger and ruder than cut-eye, and argues that it survived from African speech. Slang dictionaries enter kiss teeth as originally West Indian, meaning to make a hissing noise of disapproval.

The typed initialism grew out of the phrase in texting, and nobody has documented who wrote it first. It was established among young Black Britons by November 2013. That month a newspaper column explained KMT – kissing my teeth after the phrase came up on a national radio programme. In March 2017, Drake's track "KMT," with the London rapper Giggs, became Giggs' first top-ten entry on the UK Singles Chart. It put the abbreviation in front of a wider audience.

More sources: KMT - Wiktionary · steups - Wiktionary · KMT by Drake ft Giggs - Official Charts

How to use kmt in a sentence

bus said 2 mins for the last 15 mins kmt

kmt he really left me on read then posted a story

ref gives that as a pen?? kmt this league is finished

In a conversation

can you cover my shift saturday, last time i promise

you said that last week kmt

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Don't confuse kmt with

smh: Smh is weary disappointment, shaking your head. Kmt is sharper and more contemptuous, and it comes from Caribbean and Black British speech.

Questions about kmt

What does kmt mean in text?: Kiss my teeth. It's the typed version of sucking air through your teeth, a sound of annoyance, disbelief or dismissal.
What does kmt mean in UK slang?: The same: kiss my teeth. It comes from Caribbean speech and is common among Black British and wider London youth, usually at the end of an irritated message.
What does kmt mean in Jamaican slang?: Kiss my teeth, from the Jamaican phrase kiss teeth. In the eastern Caribbean the same gesture is more often called steups.
Is kmt rude?: It can be. At a late bus it's just venting. Aimed at a person, kissing your teeth is a show of contempt, and many people take it as disrespect.
What does KMT mean in the Drake song?: The title is the abbreviation: kiss my teeth. The 2017 track with Giggs reached the UK top ten and introduced the letters to many listeners outside Britain.
How do you reply to kmt?: Often you don't need to. If it's aimed at a situation, agree. If it's aimed at you, the other person is annoyed, so an apology or an explanation is the reply.