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Kicking

noun

A rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics. Synonym: kick. "The swimmer's kicking left a wake behind him"

The act of delivering a blow with the foot. Synonyms: boot, kick. "The team's kicking was excellent"

Kick

verb

(past & past part. kicked; pres. part. kicking)

Drive or propel with the foot.

Thrash about or strike out with the feet.

Strike with the foot. "Kick the door down"

Kick a leg up.

Spring back, as from a forceful thrust. Synonyms: kick back, recoil.

Stop consuming. Synonym: give up. "Give up alcohol"

Make a goal.

Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness. Synonyms: complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off. "She has a lot to kick about"

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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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