kiss A kiss is the touching or pressing of one's lips against another person, animal or object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely; depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, romance, sex ...

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 KISS NB ( Keep It Simple Solutions, New Brunswick), founded in 2017 by former dairy farmer and ambulance volunteer, Gerald Bourque, is a defunct political party based in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The party was created to advocate ...

, a minor political party in the Canadian province of New Brunswick * Kiss Baking Company Limited, in Trinidad *

KISS (brand) is a brand of adult (or eroge) PC games developed by Japanese company Workman Co., Ltd., from Ikebukuro. In 2013, KISS developed a virtual reality add-on for Custom Maid 3D with a wireless male masturbation device called Ju-C Air, making it t ...

, a brand from a Japanese adult video game company

Computing

KISS (amateur radio protocol) KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is a protocol for communicating with a serial terminal node controller (TNC) device used for amateur radio. This allows the TNC to combine more features into a single device and standardizes communications. KISS was d ...

, a protocol used with amateur radio terminal node controllers *

Kiss Technology Kiss Technology was an entertainment technology company based in Denmark that existed from 1994 to 2005. It produced DVD players. In 2003, its DR-450 model were the first DVD players that could read the MPEG-4 format, and in 2004, its DP-500 model ...

, a Danish entertainment technology company *

Kisekae Set System Kisekae Set System (commonly known as KiSS) is a blending of art with computers originally designed to allow creation of virtual " paper dolls". Kisekae is short for , a Japanese term meaning "dress-up dolls". Unlike "computer art" which creates o ...

(KiSS), software for blending art and computers *

KISS (algorithm) KISS ( Keep it Simple Stupid) is a family of pseudorandom number generators introduced by George Marsaglia. Starting from 1998 Marsaglia posted on various newsgroups including sci.math, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.fortran and sci.stat.math several ...

, a family of pseudo-random number generators *

Kissing number In geometry, the kissing number of a mathematical space is defined as the greatest number of non-overlapping unit spheres that can be arranged in that space such that they each touch a common unit sphere. For a given sphere packing (arrangement o ...

(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 * ''Kiss'' (2025 film), upcoming Tamil film by Sathish Krishnan * ''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 * '' Kiss: The Series'', a 2016 Thai television series *

Kiss TV Kiss TV was a music video television channel owned by Channel Four Television based on the format of the Bauer Media Audio UK-owned national radio station Kiss. The channel's programming predominantly consisted of classic and mainstream hi ...

, a UK music channel

Music

Bands

Kiss (band) Kiss (commonly styled as KISS) was an American rock music, rock band formed in New York City in 1973 by Paul Stanley (vocals, rhythm guitar), Gene Simmons (vocals, bass guitar), Ace Frehley (lead guitar, vocals) and Peter Criss (drums, vocals) ...

, an American hard rock/heavy metal group *

Kiss (South Korean group) Kiss (Korea International Super Star, stylized as KISS) was a South Korean female pop trio. Their debut single "Because I'm a Girl" () was a 2001 hit.

, 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 Les Wampas () are a French punk rock/psychobilly band, who refer more exactly to their music as "Yé-yé-punk". The band was formed in Paris in 1983. History :''See also Les Wampas#Discography, Discography'' The band's first album, ''Tutti Frut ...

* ''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 Jo Hyun-soo (; born September 29, 1993), better known by his stage name twlv (, pronounced "twelve"), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer. He began his music career by uploading songs onto music sharing website SoundCloud an ...

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 * "Kisses" (song), a 2024 song by Bl3ss and CamrinWatsin * Kuss-Walzer, or "Kiss Waltz", composed by Johann Strauss II

Other media

*'' Transformers: Kiss Players'', a Japanese ''Transformers'' franchise *'' Kiss: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child'', a 2000 first-person shooter * Kiss FM (disambiguation), any of several radio stations *

Kiss Network Kiss is a British digital radio station owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Kiss Network. Kiss broadcasts nationally to the UK via DAB digital radio, as well as on Bauer's Rayo platform. The station started in 1985 a ...

, a UK radio network

Products

Kisses (confectionery) Kisses is a term used in the United States and Canada to describe various items of small sugar confectionery, defined by their shape rather than a similar recipe. The most famous brand using this name is Hershey's Kisses, which were first produced ...

, in Britain and North America, various items of small confectionery **

Hershey's Kisses Hershey's Kisses are chocolates first produced by the Hershey Company in 1907. The bite-sized pieces of chocolate have a distinctive conical shape, sometimes described as flat-bottomed Drop (liquid), teardrops. Hershey's Kisses chocolates are wra ...

, a chocolate candy *Kiss, a line of consumer-level

Canon EOS Canon EOS (Electro-Optical System) is an autofocus single-lens reflex camera (SLR) and mirrorless camera series produced by Canon Inc. Introduced in 1987 with the Canon EOS 650, all EOS cameras used 135 film, 35 mm photographic film, film unti ...

cameras in the Japanese market since 1993

Transportation

Celier Kiss The Celier Kiss is a series of Polish autogyros that was designed by Frenchman Raphael Celier and produced by his company, Celier Aviation of Jaktorów-Kolonia, Poland. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur const ...

, a Polish gyroplane *

Stadler KISS The Stadler KISS is a family of bilevel rail car, bilevel electric multiple unit commuter trains developed and built since 2008 by Stadler Rail of Switzerland. As of 2016, 242 KISS trainsets comprising 1,145 cars have been sold to operators in el ...

, a currently made Swiss double-decker train

Other uses

* Kiss (surname) * DJ Kiss, American DJ, television personality, and fashion model *

Kisses Delavin Kirsten Danielle Tan Delavin (; born May 1, 1999) popularly known as Kisses Delavin, is a Filipino former actress. She came to prominence in 2016 as a contestant in the reality television series, '' Pinoy Big Brother: Lucky 7'', where she was ...

(born 1999), Filipina actress and singer *Kiss, a term used in cue sports *

KISS principle KISS, an acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid!", is a design principle first noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. First seen partly in American English by at least 1938, KISS implies that simplicity should be a design goal. The phrase has been associate ...

, 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 242 people were killed and at least 630 others injured in a fire in the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on 27 January 2013. The fire started between 2:00 and 2:30 a.m. ( BRST) because outdoor fireworks were used indoor ...

Kiss (pinball) Kiss-themed pinball machines were produced by Bally in 1979 and Stern in 2015. There are also some pinball machine conversion kits, a Kiss pinball machine prototype and a '' Kiss pinball video game''. History In 1979 the first Kiss arcade pin ...

*'' Kiss II'', a 1962 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein * Kiss (cryptanalysis), in World War II codebreaking *

Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), informally KISS University, is a higher education institute deemed-to-be-university located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. It was established in 1993 as a residential tribal school and became a deemed ...

, a higher education institute in Odisha, India