kick
Pronunciation Etymology 1Translations
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Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English kyken, from Old Norse kikna and keikja (compare Old Norse keikr), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz, of uncertain origin.
Verbkick (kicks, present participle kicking; simple past and past participle kicked)
- (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- Did you kick your brother?
- 1895, George MacDonald, Lilith, Chapter XII: Friends and Foes,
- I was cuffed by the women and kicked by the men because I would not swallow it.
- 1905, Fielding H. Yost, chapter 6, in Football for Player and Spectator:
- A punt is made by letting the ball drop from the hands and kicking it just before it touches the ground.
- (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
- He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline kick.
- 1904, Stratemeyer Syndicate, The Bobbsey Twins, Chapter II: Rope Jumping, and What Followed,
- "If you did that, I'd kick," answered Freddie, and began to kick real hard into the air.
- (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- Kick the ball into the goal.
- 1905, Fielding H. Yost, chapter 7, in Football for Player and Spectator:
- Sometimes he can kick the ball forward along the ground until it is kicked in goal, where he can fall on it for a touchdown.
- (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
- 1976 February 3, Bill Gates, An Open Letter to Hobbyists:
- They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
- (transitive, Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- He was kicked from the IRC server for flooding.
- (transitive, slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- I still smoke, but they keep telling me to kick the habit.
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast.
- (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- (intransitive, cycling) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
- Contador kicks again to try to rid himself of Rasmussen.
- (intransitive) To show opposition or resistance.
- (printing, historical) To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
- (computing, transitive) To reset (a watchdog timer).
- 1999, Michael Barr, Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, page 98:
- In the meantime, it is possible for the embedded software to “kick” the watchdog timer, to reset its counter to the original large number.
- 2012, Tarek Sobh, Khaled Elleithy, Emerging Trends in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, and Engineering, page 763:
- From now on the process has to periodically kick the watchdog timer in intervals shorter than the initialization interval.
(reflexive, informal) To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity. - He's still kicking himself for not investing three years ago.
- Synonyms: beat oneself up, live to regret
Conjugation of kick
- French: donner un coup de pied à, botter
- German: treten, kicken
- Italian: calciare
- Portuguese: chutar
- Russian: пина́ть
- Spanish: dar una patada, dar un puntapié, patear
- French: kicker
- German: herauswerfen
- Italian: kickare
- Portuguese: kickar
- French: s'en mordre les doigts
- German: sich in den Hintern beißen
- Russian: винить себя
kick (plural kicks)
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- Synonyms: calcation
- A kick to the knee.
- 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:
- 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 action of swinging a foot or leg.
- The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.
- (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing; a pleasure; a thrill.
- 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
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 4, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC ↗, part 2:
- «Ah, it’s all right, it’s just kicks. We only live once. We’re having a good time.»
- (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
- (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- The car had a nasty kick the whole way.
- The pool ball took a wild kick, up off the table.
- (uncountable and countable) A pungent or spicy flavour; piquancy.
- 2002, Ellen and Michael Albertson, Temptations, Fireside, ISBN 0743229800, page 124 :
- Add a little cascabel pepper to ordinary tomato sauce to give it a kick.
- 2002, Ellen and Michael Albertson, Temptations, Fireside, ISBN 0743229800, page 124 :
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- a long kick up the field.
- The recoil of a gun.
- (informal) A pocket.
- 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Quit Foolin’ with That Comb”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 44 ↗:
- Some nights I’d try my luck in the crap game and wind up with a grand or more in my kick.
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
- (film, television) Synonym of kicker
- (Britain, historical, dated, colloquial) Sixpence.
- (colloquial) A shoe.
- French: coup de pied, botter
- Italian: calcio, piedata, colpo di piede
- Portuguese: chute, pontapé, coice (from a quadruped animal)
- Russian: пино́к
- Spanish: patada, puntapié, coz (of an animal)
Shortening of kick the bucket.
Verbkick (kicks, present participle kicking; simple past and past participle kicked)
- (intransitive) To die.
Shortening of kick ass
Verbkick (kicks, present participle kicking; simple past and past participle kicked)
- (slang, intransitive) To be emphatically excellent.
- That band really kicks.
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