noun
- A bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value.
- A bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float.
- Plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string.
- Any of several small graceful hawks of the family Accipitridae having long pointed wings and feeding on insects and small animals.
verb
- Increase the amount (of a check) fraudulently.
- usage: "He kited many checks"
- Get credit or money by using a bad check.
- usage: "The businessman kited millions of dollars"
- Soar or fly like a kite.
- usage: "The pilot kited for a long time over the mountains"
- Fly a kite.
- usage: "Kids were kiting in the park"; "They kited the Red Dragon model"
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