kick
IPA: kˈɪk
noun
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
- (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
- (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- (uncountable and countable) A pungent or spicy flavour; piquancy.
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- The recoil of a gun.
- (informal) A pocket.
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
- (film, television) Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)
- (Britain, historical, dated, colloquial) Sixpence.
- (colloquial) A shoe.
verb
- (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
- (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
- (intransitive, Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- (transitive, slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- (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.
- (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).
- (reflexive, informal) To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (slang, intransitive) To be emphatically excellent.
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Examples of "kick" in Sentences
- The ball is moved on the course by kicking.
- Football is only twenty two hirelings kicking a ball.
- The aim of the game is to kick the ball into the goal.
- The leg movement in freestyle is called the flutter kick.
- Blight kicked the ball out on the full, giving Hawthorn the win.
- The tornado kick uses the leg opposite the direction of rotation.
- The longer the legs are held in the kick position, the longer the stall.
- The leg movement in backstroke is similar to the flutter kick in front crawl.
- It is described as kicking the ball without the ball first hitting the ground.
- According to him, Petrosian just kicked his legs nervously and shook the table.
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