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A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.

Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid

A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA.

A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.

To gather up (skirts) around the body.

To put to death; to extinguish the life of.

Example: Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.

To render inoperative.

Example: He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.

To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.

Example: My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.

To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.

Example: That joke always kills me.