Meaning of kick | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
   countable, uncountable
2. To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg
3. To move from place to place.
4. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
   countable, uncountable
5. To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something
6. To throw out; dismiss.
7. Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing; a pleasure; a thrill.
   colloquial, countable, uncountable
8. To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg
9. To begin to fire: The engine finally kicked over.
10. The removal of a person from an online activity.
    Internet, countable, uncountable
11. To eject summarily
12. To take forceful or harsh measures to achieve an objective.
13. The act of restarting or resetting a watchdog timer.
    countable, uncountable
14. To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity
15. To die.
16. Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
17. To free oneself of an addiction, as to narcotics or cigarettes.
18. A pungent or spicy flavour; piquancy.
    countable, uncountable
19. To cast off one's inhibitions and have a good time.
20. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
    countable, uncountable
21. To promote to a higher yet less desirable position.
22. A pass played by kicking with the foot.
    countable, uncountable
23. Informal. To speak together and exchange ideas and opinions about:bandy (about), discuss, moot, talk over, thrash out (or over), thresh out (or over), toss around.
24. The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
    countable, uncountable
25. Slang. To put out by force:bump, dismiss, eject, evict, expel, oust, throw out.
26. The recoil of a gun.
    countable, uncountable
27. A pocket.
    countable, informal, uncountable
28. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
    countable, uncountable
29. Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”).
    countable, uncountable
30. Sixpence.
    British, colloquial, countable, dated, historical, uncountable
31. A shoe.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
32. Clipping of kickdrum; a 808.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A kick to the knee.”

“A kick of his boot-heel sent the door flying into the room.”

“Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.”

“The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.”

“I finally saw the show. What a kick!”

“I think I sprained something on my latest exercise kick.”

“get a kick out of”

“get one's kicks”

“Won't you get hip to this kindly tip / When you ride that California trip / Get your kicks on Route 66”

“I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So tell me why should it be true that I get a kick out of you. Some hey may go for cocaine. I'm sure that if I took even one sniff it would bore me terrifically, too. Yet, I get a kick out of you.[…]I get no kick in a plane. Flying too high with some gal in the sky is my idea of nothing to do. Yet I get a kick. You give me a boot. I get a kick out of you.”

“«Ah, it’s all right, it’s just kicks. We only live once. We’re having a good time.»”

“The “Mods” say it was the “Rockers” who came looking for trouble. Both groups, however, admit that they were “looking for kicks.””

“I have a theory […] that the Butterfield Band, who played in back of Dylan was really the Kingston Trio getting kicks […]”

“I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight / Get teenage kicks right through the night”

“This is a common experience among drug addicts who need stronger and stronger doses to regain the old 'kicks'.”

“They seek new kicks, new thrills, new adventures.”

“The car had a nasty kick the whole way.”

“The pool ball took a wild kick, up off the table.”

“Add a little cascabel pepper to ordinary tomato sauce to give it a kick.”

“For extra kick, hollow out a lime, float it on top of the drink, and fill it with tequila.”

“The first time I saw "Deep Water," the trace of mystery in the Crowhurst affair gave the movie a kick of excitement.”

“Then again this is Mayfair. A big, rustling bowl of deep-fried squid with a salty chilli kick cost £7.50; a generous pile of jamon croquetas, the shells giving way to something creamy and intensely hammy within, was 50p less.”

“a long kick up the field.”

“Some nights I’d try my luck in the crap game and wind up with a grand or more in my kick.”

“Her mind couldn’t lose sight of […]the bloodied nickel plated pistol Angie had in his kick.”

“Swell shows all of ‘em, except this last one. […] Set me back two-seventy-five, including tax, and I wish I’d got it in my kick right now.”

“If you keep Nan’s advice you’ll keep it in your kick.”

“You take that and put it in your kick. I’ve had plenty of cash out of you already.”

“Two and a kick—two shillings and a kick.”

“That's the stuff that will do the trick / Sold at every chemist for one and a kick”

“All the other kids with the pumped up kicks / You better run, better run, outrun my gun”

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