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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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A boy kicking a ball.

FromMiddle Englishkyken(“to strike out with the foot”), fromOld Norsekikna(“to sink at the knees”) andkeikja(“to bend backwards”) (compareOld Norsekeikr(“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), fromProto-Germanic*kaikaz(“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps fromProto-Germanic*kī-,*kij-(“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), fromProto-Indo-European*ǵeyH-(“to sprout, shoot”). Compare alsoDutchkijken(“to look”),Middle Low Germankīken(“to look, watch”). Seekeek.

Verb

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kick (third-person singular simple presentkicks,present participlekicking,simple past and past participlekicked)

  1. (transitive) Tostrike orhit with thefoot or other extremity of theleg.
    Did youkick your brother?
    • 1895,George MacDonald,Lilith, Chapter XII: Friends and Foes,
      I was cuffed by the women andkicked by the men because I would not swallow it.
    • 1905,Fielding H. Yost, chapter 6, inFootball for Player and Spectator:
      A punt is made by letting the ball drop from the hands andkicking it just before it touches the ground.
    • 1919,Sherwood Anderson, “The Teacher: concerning Kate Swift”, inWinesburg, Ohio:
      Will Henderson, who had on a light overcoat and no overshoes,kicked the heel of his left foot with the toe of the right.
    • 2020 September 9, Jason Chamberlain, “The growing likelihood of a 'different type of railway'”, inRail, page45:
      Or to put it in the more colourful language of our Prime Minister: "The secret to improving rail transport, in my view, is you need to find the right arse tokick." Unfortunately, since the abolition of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) in 2005, the DfT has ostensibly been in direct control of railway policy setting, and this has meant that the only arse the government has been able tokick is its own.
  2. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
    He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kicklinekick.
  3. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
    Kick the ball into the goal.
  4. (with "off" or "out") Toejectsummarily.
    • 1936 October,Robert E. Howard, “The Conquerin' Hero of the Humbolts”, inAction Stories:
      "He's been mad at me ever since I fired him off'n my payroll. After Ikicked him off'n my ranch he run for sheriff, and the night of the election everybody was so drunk they voted for him by mistake, or for a joke, or somethin', and since he's been in office he's been lettin' the sheepmen steal me right out of house and home."
    • 1976 February 3,Bill Gates,An Open Letter to Hobbyists:
      They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should bekicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
    • 1992, “Baby Got Back”, inSir Mix-a-Lot (lyrics), Rick Rubin and Sir Mix-a-Lot (music),Mack Daddy, Def American Recordings:
      Dial 1-900-Mix-a-Lot andkick them nasty thoughts.
  5. (transitive, Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
    She waskicked from theIRC server for flooding.
  6. (transitive, slang) Toovercome (abothersome ordifficultissue orobstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
    I still smoke, but they keep telling me tokick the habit.
  7. To move or push suddenly and violently.
    He waskicked sideways by the force of the blast.
    • 2011, Tom Andry,Bob Moore: No Hero‎[1]:
      The back of the carkicked out violently, forcing me to steer into the slide and accelerate in order to maintain control.
  8. (of a firearm) Torecoil; to push by recoiling.
    • 2003, Jennifer C. D. Groomes,The Falcon Project,page174:
      Lying on the ground, when fired, itkicked me back a foot. There was no way a person my size was going to be able to do an effective job with this gun.
    • 2006, Daniel D. Scherschel,Maple Grove,page81:
      I asked my sister Jeanette if she wanted to shoot the 12 ga. shotgun. She replied, "does itkick"?
  9. (chess, transitive) Toattack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
  10. (intransitive, cycling) Toaccelerate quickly with a fewpedalstrokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
    Contadorkicks again to try to rid himself of Rasmussen.
  11. (intransitive) To showopposition orresistance.
  12. (printing, historical) To work apress by impact of the foot on atreadle.
  13. (computing, transitive) Toreset (awatchdog timer).
    • 1999, Michael Barr,Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, page98:
      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, page763:
      From now on the process has to periodicallykick the watchdog timer in intervals shorter than the initialization interval.
  15. (reflexive, informal) Toreproach oneself for making amistake or missing anopportunity.
    Synonyms:beat oneself up,live to regret
    He's stillkicking himself for not investing three years ago.
Conjugation
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Conjugation ofkick
infinitive(to)kick
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularkickkicked
2nd-personsingularkick,kickest†kicked,kickedst†
3rd-personsingularkicks,kicketh†kicked
pluralkick
subjunctivekickkicked
imperativekick—
participleskickingkicked
Descendants
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Translations
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strike with or raise the foot or leg
direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg
to remove a participant from an online activity
reproach oneself
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Noun

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kick (countable anduncountable,pluralkicks)

  1. Ahit orstrike with theleg,foot orknee.
    Synonym:calcation(rare)
    Akick to the knee.
  2. The action ofswinging afoot orleg.
    The ballerina did a highkick and a leap.
  3. (colloquial) Something thattickles thefancy; somethingfun oramusing; apleasure; athrill.
    I finally saw the show. What akick!
    I think I sprained something on my latest exercisekick.
    get akick out of;get one'skicks
    • 1946,Bobby Troup, “Route 66”, performed by Nat King Cole:
      Won't you get hip to this kindly tip / When you ride that California trip / Get yourkicks on Route 66
    • 1954 January 4, “I Get aKick Out of You”, inSongs for Young Lovers‎[3], performed byFrank Sinatra:
      I get nokick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So tell me why should it be true that I get akick 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 akick out of you.[…]I get nokick in a plane. Flying too high with some gal in the sky is my idea of nothing to do. Yet I get akick. You give me a boot. I get akick out of you.
    • 1957,Jack Kerouac, chapter 4, inOn the Road, Viking Press,→OCLC, part 2:
      «Ah, it’s all right, it’s justkicks. We only live once. We’re having a good time.»
    • 1964 March 31, “Rival Teen‐Age Gangs Terrorize British Sea Resort”, inThe New York Times‎[4]:
      The “Mods” say it was the “Rockers” who came looking for trouble. Both groups, however, admit that they were “looking forkicks.”
    • 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, inThe Realist‎[5], number61, retrieved2022-11-13, page11:
      I have a theory […] that the Butterfield Band, who played in back of Dylan was really the Kingston Trio gettingkicks […]
    • 1979,John O'Neill, “Teenage Kicks”, performed by The Undertones:
      I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight / Get teenagekicks right through the night
    • 1996, Samuel Brittan,Capitalism with a human face, page136:
      This is a common experience among drug addicts who need stronger and stronger doses to regain the old 'kicks'.
    • 2010,Theodore J. Kaczynski, edited by David Skrbina,Technological Slavery, page385:
      They seek newkicks, new thrills, new adventures.
  4. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
  5. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
    The car had a nastykick the whole way.
    The pool ball took a wildkick, up off the table.
  6. (uncountable and countable) Apungent orspicyflavour;piquancy.
    • 2002, Ellen and Michael Albertson,Temptations,Fireside,→ISBN, page 124 [6]:
      Add a little cascabel pepper to ordinary tomato sauce to give it akick.
    • 2003, Sheree Bykofsky, Megan Buckley,Sexy City Cocktails‎[7],Adams Media,→ISBN, page129:
      For extrakick, hollow out a lime, float it on top of the drink, and fill it with tequila.
    • 2007 August 27,Anthony Lane, “Lone Sailors”, inThe New Yorker, volume83, numbers22-28:
      The first time I saw "Deep Water," the trace of mystery in the Crowhurst affair gave the movie akick of excitement.
  7. Astimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
  8. (soccer) Apass played by kicking with the foot.
  9. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
    a longkick up the field.
  10. Therecoil of a gun.
  11. (informal) Apocket.[1]
    • 1946,Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow,Bernard Wolfe, “Quit Foolin’ with That Comb”, inReally the Blues, New York, N.Y.:Random House,book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child),page44:
      Some nights I’d try my luck in the crap game and wind up with a grand or more in mykick.
    • 1952, George Mandel,Flee the Angry Strangers, Bobs-Merrill,page383:
      Her mind couldn’t lose sight of […]the bloodied nickel plated pistol Angie had in hiskick.
    • 2008, P.G.Wodehouse,The Adventures of Sally (Volume 2 of 2)‎[8], ReadHowYouWant.com, page277:
      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 mykick right now.
    • 2008, Loren D. Estleman,Port Hazard:A Page Murdock Novel‎[9], Tom Doherty Associates:
      If you keep Nan’s advice you’ll keep it in yourkick.
    • 2012, Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust),Silvertip’s Trap, Adams Media:
      You take that and put it in yourkick. I’ve had plenty of cash out of you already.
  12. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
  13. (film, television)Synonym ofkicker(“backlight positioned at an angle”)
  14. (British, historical, dated, colloquial)Sixpence.
    • 1912,French's Acting Edition of Plays, Dramas, Extravaganzas, Farces etc., page12:
      Two and akick—two shillings and akick.
    • 1941,Eddie Latta,George Formby, “Auntie Maggie's Remedy”, performed by George Formby:
      That's the stuff that will do the trick / Sold at every chemist for one and akick
  15. (colloquial) Ashoe.
Quotations
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Descendants
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Translations
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hit or strike with the leg or foot
action of swinging a foot or leg
colloquial: something fun or amusing

Derived terms

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Terms derived from the noun or verb

Etymology 2

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Shortening ofkick the bucket.

Verb

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kick (third-person singular simple presentkicks,present participlekicking,simple past and past participlekicked)

  1. (intransitive) Todie.
    • 2005, Melissa L. Rossi,What every American should know about who's really running the world‎[10], page211:
      Who knows what will happen to his billions when the eighty-five-year-oldkicks, but before he leaves the planet, Moon reportedly is hell-bent on creating a holy land in North Korea, dedicated to him.

Etymology 3

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Shortening ofkick ass

Verb

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kick (third-person singular simple presentkicks,present participlekicking,simple past and past participlekicked)

  1. (slang, intransitive) To be emphatically excellent.
    Synonyms:bang,slap;see alsoThesaurus:excel
    That band reallykicks.

References

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“kick”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

  1. ^Eric Partridge (2013) “kick”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors,The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2nd edition, volumes I–II, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.:Routledge,→ISBN,page1318.

Chinese

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Etymology

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Romanisation of撠(kik1,“to stumble; to trip over”), influenced by spelling ofEnglishkick. Not related toEnglishkick semantically.

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kick

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese)Nonstandard form of撠(kik1,“to stumble; to trip over”).

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowing fromEnglishkick.

Noun

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kick m (pluralkicks)

  1. kick,thrill(something that excites or gives pleasure)

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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kick

  1. inflection ofkicken:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
    3. imperative

German

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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kick

  1. singularimperative ofkicken
  2. (colloquial)first-personsingularpresent ofkicken
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