oil shock
noun
A sudden dramatic increase in the price of oil; a period of economic difficulty caused by such an increase; specifically either of two oil price rises imposed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 1973–4 and 1978–9.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in The New York Times.
- kick down
- kick drum
- kicker
- kickflip
- kick in
- kicking
- kicking strap
- kick off
- kick on
- kick oneself
- kick one's heels
- kickout
- kick over the traces
- kick plate
- kick-pleat
- kickshaw
- kick (some) ass (or butt)
- kick someone around
- kick someone in the pants (or up the backside)
- kick someone in the teeth
- kick someone out
- kick someone's ass (or butt)
- kick someone/thing to the curb
- kick someone upstairs
- kick someone when they are down