Meaning of kicking boots | Babel Free

Definitions

Ability to kick well.

idiomatic, plural, plural-only

Examples

“If these two were outstanding, the others were not far behind. Finlow, having his best game for the School, put⟳ Murphy in for the next try⟳ and it did not seem to matter⟳ that Mangeot had for once left his kicking boots behind[,] for Lintin, Finlow and H. Cooper were all but over before half-time.”

“Helped by a quite remarkable individual run⟳ by Jason[…], Jonny found his kicking boots again, Wales succumbed 28—17 and we were through to the semis in Sydney on 16 November.”

“As in their narrow defeat⟳ of Argentina last⟳ week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have⟳ been behind at half-time.”

CEFR level