cousin

Definition

  • noun: a child of your uncle or aunt
  • noun: a child of one's uncle or aunt
  • used as a title by a sovereign in addressing a nobleman
  • synonyms: akin, allied, aunt

Examples

  • Everyone came to the wedding, including a distant 'cousin' no one had heard from in years.

  • He's her 'first cousin'. = He and she are 'first cousins'.

  • He says politics and show business are 'kissing cousins'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) We gonna hate some niggers. We gonna hate some goddamn niggers. That's all we'll do, is hate niggers all day. I don't know what a nigger is, but we'll hate them. My cousin Derek is in the pen right now... ...working next to a nigger, driving him nigger crazy." See? That's the ticket. Nice and easy. (..)
    1998 American History X