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Although this obviously has other definitions, it's used in Hawai'ian pidgin to mean "goose bumps."
Dat Exorcist movie give me da kine chicken skin!
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A variation of the "carnival talk" word "kayfabe", meaning "keep quiet" or "keep secret".
This would be used as a form of verbal shorthand to remind someone else that they might be talking too much, not to talk around someone in earshot, or not to reveal a secret.
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Wrestling term derived from "carnival talk" for the word "keep". Originally would have been pronounced more like "keel-feep". When said quickly, it sounds like kay-fabe. Used as shorthand term for "keep quiet", or "keep secret".
The word would not originally have been used as part of a sentence. It would have conveyed the meaning of a sentence in itself. The whole point of carnival talk was to speak quickly, and in manner that the "rubes" couldn't understand.
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