The in-laws of your children. From the German kinder (children) and kin (kin).

The word was coined in 1982 by an anonymous donor to William Safire's column in the New York Sunday Times. It sounds quite useful, but it hasn't really caught on yet.

Words with this meaning already existed in Spanish (consuegros) and Yiddish (machetunim).

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