To love, to really enjoy something.
"Je kiffe" means I love it. Used for music, food, places, and people. Very common among younger speakers and a clear marker of contemporary spoken French.
From Arabic kayf (pleasure, wellbeing) — one of many Maghrebi borrowings in modern French.
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