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/kˈɪkɪŋ/ Listen

noun

kicking n. The act of delivering a blow with the foot.

Synonyms: kick, boot.

alive and kicking alive and vigorously active.

verb

Kick v. t. (past & past part. kicked; pres. part. kicking)

1.

To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog. "He (Frederick the Great) kicked the shins of his judges."

2.

To evict or remove from a place or position, usually with out or off; as, they kicked him off the staff; he was kicked out of the restaurant; the landlord kicked them out of the apartment for making too much noise.

3.

(Sport) To score (goals or points) by kicking; as, they kicked three field goals in the game.

4.

To discontinue; usually used of habitual activities; as, to kick a habit; he kicked his drug habit.

To kick the beam, to fit up and strike the beam; said of the lighter arm of a loaded balance; hence, to be found wanting in weight.

To kick the bucket, to lose one's life; to die. (Colloq. & Low)

To kick oneself, to experience strong regret; as, he kicked himself for not investing in the stock market in 1995.

Kick v. i.

1.

To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, (figuratively): To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn. "I should kick, being kicked."

2.

To recoil; said of a musket, cannon, etc.; also called kick back.

3.

(Football) To make a kick as an offensive play.

4.

To complain strenuously; to object vigorously.

5.

To resist.

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Etymology of 'Kicking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Kicking" Quotes from Famous Books

... experience, and his nerves were easily unstrung. He forgot the shovel, forgot the human whom he had been fearfully trying to propitiate, forgot everything except the dreadful objects which clung to him and pulled his hair. He rolled from beneath the table, a shrieking, kicking, snapping cyclone. And that kitchen was no place ...

— The Woman-Haters • Joseph C. Lincoln

... opposes or baffles us. Of course, when we yield to the anger, we do not act as reasonable beings, but as the unreasoning animals. It is hard for one to control this feeling when the opposition comes from some living creature, as a balky horse or a kicking cow, or a pig that will not be driven through the open gate. When I was a boy, I once saw one of my uncles kick a hive of bees off the stand and halfway across the yard, because the bees stung him when he was about to "take them up." I confess ...

— The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers • John Burroughs

... sleeping company much as La Boulaye had left it the night before. In an access of rage at what he saw, and at the ample evidences of the debauch that had reduced them to this condition, Charlot began by kicking the chair from under Mother Capoulade. The noise of her fall and the scream with which she awoke served to arouse one or two others, who lifted their heads ...

— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini

... and I stays there alone with two of the Army, teaching the men how to drill, and a thundering big Chief comes across the snow with kettledrums and horns twanging, because he heard there was a new god kicking about. Carnehan sights for the brown of the men half a mile across the snow and wings one of them. Then he sends a message to the Chief that, unless he wished to be killed, he must come and shake hands with me and leave his arms behind. The Chief comes alone first, and Carnehan shakes hands with ...

— The Man Who Would Be King • Rudyard Kipling

... child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of—" kicking up a row ...

— In a Steamer Chair And Other Stories • Robert Barr

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