osculation

You won’t find “come from away” or “screech-in”—a mock ceremony depicted in the musical that confers Newfoundland “citizenship,” featuring extreme drunkenness and the osculation of a raw cod—in the Oxford English Dictionary.

One of the play's more memorable exchanges directly engages the all-important subject of theatrical osculation.

I suppose he was afraid she would have no lips left after such reiterated osculation.

On the same day I saw “Vanya,” I was treated to a more optimistic act of osculation in the afternoon.

Acts of osculation have of course been known to sweep people off their feet.