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parting

2 adjective
     
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1

a parting kiss/gift/glance etc

a kiss etc that you give someone as you leave
2

parting shot

an unpleasant remark that you make just as you are leaving, especially at the end of an argument:
As her parting shot, she told me never to phone her again.
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