A kiss 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 published by Kodansha
  • 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, a minor political party in the Canadian province of New Brunswick
  • Kiss Baking Company Limited, in Trinidad
  • KISS (brand), a brand from a Japanese adult video game company

Computing

  • KISS (amateur radio protocol), a protocol used with amateur radio terminal node controllers
  • Kiss Technology, a Danish entertainment technology company
  • Kisekae Set System (KiSS), a dress-up paper doll file format
  • KISS (algorithm), a family of pseudo-random number generators
  • Kissing number (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" (Band of Gold), a 1996 television episode
  • "Kiss" (Dawson's Creek), a 1998 television episode
  • "Kiss" (Shifting Gears), a 2025 television episode
  • Kiss: The Series, a 2016 Thai television series
  • Kiss TV, a UK music channel

Music

Bands

  • Kiss (band), an American hard rock/heavy metal group
  • Kiss (South Korean group), 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
  • 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

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
  • "Kiss" (Demi Lovato song), 2025
  • "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, a UK radio network

Products

  • Kisses (confectionery), in Britain and North America, various items of small confectionery
  • Hershey's Kisses, a chocolate candy
  • Kiss, a line of consumer-level Canon EOS cameras in the Japanese market since 1993

Transportation

  • Celier Kiss, a Polish gyroplane
  • Stadler KISS, a currently made Swiss double-decker train

Other uses

  • Kiss (surname)
  • DJ Kiss, American DJ, television personality, and fashion model
  • Kisses Delavin (born 1999), Filipina actress and singer
  • Kiss, a term used in cue sports
  • KISS principle, 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
  • Kiss (pinball)
  • Kiss II, a 1962 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein
  • Kiss (cryptanalysis), in World War II codebreaking
  • Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, a higher education institute in Odisha, India

See also

  • The Kiss (disambiguation)
  • Kiss You (disambiguation)
  • Kiss Me (disambiguation)
  • Kissin (disambiguation)
  • Kisspeptin or KISS1, a human gene