kye

[ key ]

noun
  1. a private Korean-American banking club to which members pay contributions and from which they may take out loans, usually to start small businesses.

Origin of kye

1
Borrowed into English from Korean around 1985–90

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British Dictionary definitions for kye

kye

/ (kaɪ) /


noun
  1. (functioning as plural) a Scottish and Northern English variant of kine

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