kick
verb
- physically strike using the leg, foot or knee
noun
- physical strike using the leg, foot or knee
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kɪk/ / [kʰɪk]
noun
Etymology: From Middle English kyken (“to strike out with the foot”), from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”) and keikja (“to bend backwards”) (compare Old Norse keikr (“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz (“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kī-, *kij- (“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH- (“to sprout, shoot”). Compare also Dutch kijken (“to look”), Middle Low German kīken (“to look, watch”). See keek.
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
“A kick to the knee.”
“A kick of his boot-heel sent the door flying into the room.”
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
“The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.”
- 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.”
- The removal of a person from an online activity.
- The act of restarting or resetting a watchdog timer.
- 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.”
- A pungent or spicy flavour; piquancy.
“Add a little cascabel pepper to ordinary tomato sauce to give it a kick.”
“For extra kick, hollow out a lime, float it on top of the drink, and fill it with tequila.”
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
“a long kick up the field.”
- The recoil of a gun.
- A pocket.
“Some nights I’d try my luck in the crap game and wind up with a grand or more in my kick.”
“Her mind couldn’t lose sight of […]the bloodied nickel plated pistol Angie had in his kick.”
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
- Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”).
- Sixpence.
“Two and a kick—two shillings and a kick.”
“That's the stuff that will do the trick / Sold at every chemist for one and a kick”
- A shoe.
“All the other kids with the pumped up kicks / You better run, better run, outrun my gun”
- Clipping of kickdrum; a 808.
verb
Etymology: Shortening of kick ass
- To be emphatically excellent.
“That band really kicks.”