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kick the bucket
kick K0053700 (kĭk)v. kicked, kick·ing, kicks v.intr.1. To extend the leg away from the body; strike out with the foot or feet.2. Sports a. To score or gain ground by kicking a ball.b. To punt in football.c. To propel the body in swimming by moving the legs, as with a flutter kick or frog kick.3. To recoil: The powerful rifle kicked upon being fired.4. Informal a. To express negative feelings vigorously; complain.b. To oppose by argument; protest.v.tr.1. To strike with the foot: kicked the wall in frustration.2. To propel by striking with the foot: kick a ball.3. To spring back against suddenly: The rifle kicked my shoulder when I fired it.4. Sports To score (a goal or point) by kicking a ball.n.1. a. A vigorous blow with the foot.b. Sports The motion of the legs that propels the body in swimming.2. Any of various moves in dance in which the leg is extended from the body.3. A jolting recoil: a rifle with a heavy kick.4. Slang A complaint; a protest.5. Slang Power; force: a car engine with a lot of kick.6. Slang a. A feeling of pleasurable stimulation: got a kick out of the show.b. kicks Fun: went bowling just for kicks.7. Slang Temporary, often obsessive interest: I'm on a science fiction kick.8. Slang A sudden, striking surprise; a twist.9. kicks Slang Shoes.10. Sports a. The act or an instance of kicking a ball.b. A kicked ball.c. The distance spanned by a kicked ball.Phrasal Verbs: kick about Informal To move from place to place. kick around Informal 1. To treat badly; abuse.2. To move from place to place: "spent the next three years in Italy, kicking around the country on a motor scooter" (Charles E. Claffey).3. To give thought or consideration to; ponder or discuss. kick back1. To recoil unexpectedly and violently.2. Informal To take it easy; relax: kicked back at home and watched TV.3. Slang To return (stolen items).4. Slang To pay a kickback. kick in1. Informal To contribute (one's share): kicked in a few dollars for the office party.2. Informal To become operative or take effect: "His pituitary kicked in, and his growth was suddenly vertical" (Kenneth Browser).3. Slang To die. kick off1. Sports To begin or resume play with a kickoff.2. Informal To begin; start: kicked off the promotional tour with a press conference.3. Slang To die. kick out Slang To throw out; dismiss. kick over To begin to fire: The engine finally kicked over. kick up Informal 1. To increase in amount or force; intensify: A sandstorm kicked up while we drove through the desert.2. To stir up (trouble): kicked up a row.3. To show signs of disorder: His ulcer has kicked up again.Idioms: kick ass/butt Vulgar Slang To take forceful or harsh measures to achieve an objective. kick the bucket Slang To die. kick the habit Slang To free oneself of an addiction, as to narcotics or cigarettes. kick up (one's) heels Informal To cast off one's inhibitions and have a good time. kick upstairs Slang To promote to a higher yet less desirable position. [Middle English kiken, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]ThesaurusVerb | 1. | kick the bucket - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"croak, decease, die, drop dead, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, give-up the ghost, pass away, perish, snuff it, pop off, expire, conk, exit, choke, go, passabort - cease development, die, and be aborted; "an aborting fetus"change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"buy it, pip out - be killed or die;drown - die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"predecease - die before; die earlier than; "She predeceased her husband"conk out, go bad, break down, die, fail, give out, give way, break, go - stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"starve, famish - die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"die - suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"fall - die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"succumb, yield - be fatally overwhelmed | Translationsдать дубаотбросить копытасыграть в ящикkick the bucket
kick the bucketslang To die. If they invent a hoverboard before I kick the bucket, I'm definitely going to try it, no matter how old I am. Any plant under my care kicks the bucket in about a week.See also: bucket, kickkick the bucketDie, as in All of my goldfish kicked the bucket while we were on vacation. This moderately impolite usage has a disputed origin. Some say it refers to committing suicide by hanging, in which one stands on a bucket, fastens a rope around one's neck, and kicks the bucket away. A more likely origin is the use of bucket in the sense of "a beam from which something may be suspended" because pigs were suspended by their heels from such beams after being slaughtered, the term kick the bucket came to mean "to die." [Colloquial; late 1700s] See also: bucket, kickkick the bucket INFORMALIf someone kicks the bucket, they die. The doctor said the old girl is about to kick the bucket — got some sort of kidney infection. All the money goes to her when the old man kicks the bucket. Note: This expression is used in a humorous way. Note: The origins of this expression are uncertain. It may refer to someone committing suicide by standing on a bucket, tying a rope around their neck, then kicking the bucket away. See also: bucket, kickkick the bucket die. informal The bucket in this phrase may be a pail on which a person committing suicide might stand, kicking it away before they hanged themselves. Another suggestion is that it refers to a beam on which something can be hung up; in Norfolk dialect the beam from which a slaughtered pig was suspended by its heels could be referred to as a bucket .See also: bucket, kickˌkick the ˈbucket (British English, informal or humorous) die: He got married for the first time when he was 75 and a week later he kicked the bucket.This idiom refers to the killing of animals for food. They were hung from a wooden frame (the bucket), which they would kick as they were dying.See also: bucket, kickkick the bucket tv. to die. I’m too young to kick the bucket! See also: bucket, kick kick the bucket Slang To die.See also: bucket, kickkick the bucket, toTo die. This expression, which comes from eighteenth-century Britain, has several explanations. One is that the bucket referred to is the East Anglian word for a beam on which a pig is hung by its feet to be slaughtered and which it kicks against in its death struggles. Another theorizes that a person committing suicide by hanging may stand on an overturned bucket to fasten the rope and then kick it away. The term was loosely used for anyone dying by any means by 1785, when it was so defined in Francis Grose’s A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. See also: kickEncyclopediaSeekickLegalSeedeathSee KTB See KTBkick the bucket Related to kick the bucket: bucket listSynonyms for kick the bucketverb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain lifeSynonyms- croak
- decease
- die
- drop dead
- buy the farm
- cash in one's chips
- give-up the ghost
- pass away
- perish
- snuff it
- pop off
- expire
- conk
- exit
- choke
- go
- pass
Related Words- abort
- change state
- turn
- asphyxiate
- stifle
- suffocate
- buy it
- pip out
- drown
- predecease
- conk out
- go bad
- break down
- die
- fail
- give out
- give way
- break
- go
- starve
- famish
- fall
- succumb
- yield
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