A thin stick used to hold pieces of food together for cooking or serving. Common in yakitori and other grilled dishes.
I take the yakitori off the skewer and eat it.
Slang term for a proxy server, derived from the homophone 串 (skewer) as a playful reading of 'proxy'. Used in IT contexts.
See also: プロキシサーバー
I skewered the chicken and grilled it.
Grill the vegetables on skewers.
I use a proxy to access overseas sites.
I routed my connection through a proxy to view an overseas site.
I took the meat off the skewer before eating it.
串 (くし) is a skewer used for cooking food, while 櫛 (くし) is a comb for hair — they are homophones written with different kanji.
book; volume; script · this; present; current; in question · main; head; principal · real; genuine; regular; proper · counter for long cylindrical objects; counter for films, TV shows, etc.; counter for goals, home runs, etc.; counter for telephone calls
kushikatsu; deep-fried skewered meat and vegetables
skewering; skewered food · piercing; impaling; running through
grilling on a skewer; spit-roasting
sacred sakaki branch with paper or cloth strips; Shinto offering wand · sakaki tree; Cleyera japonica
dried persimmons on a skewer
mackerel skewer · proxy server
wooden target holder (archery)
curtain pillar; curtain stake
staff with shide streamers; gohei staff
The kanji 串 originally depicts a skewer. The slang sense comes from a wordplay: 串 is read as くし, which sounds like 'proxy'.
horizontal skewering; skewer with meat skewered horizontally · cross-sector coordination; horizontal integration
skewered beef; beef skewer
wooden target holder (archery)
suspicions; guess
tamagushi used at Ise Shrine's purification ceremonies