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/kɪk
/- The appeal follows a recent spate of vandalism where bins have been set alight, plant pots have been kicked over and garden furniture damaged.
- When he reached the bedroom, he kicked the door open with his foot.
- Caine kicked the door open and hauled them both inside.
Synonyms
- Hoyle and Bruce were spoken to by the referee after an altercation in midfield, but following the free kick Bruce kicked out at Hoyle in the penalty area.
- One horse kicked out at him causing fatal injuries.
- Once inside the car, he kicked out at the interior door panels and windows, as well as spitting in the face of another police officer.
- Barking scored a penalty before Dave Lewis kicked a drop goal a minute later to put them 16-9 ahead.
- Johnny Moroney, who played on the left wing, scored 14 points, kicking goals as well as scoring a try.
- He not only kicked goals and engineered a string of openings but also scored the crucial opening try.
- Some people have said it's easier to withdraw from heroin than to kick the tobacco habit.
- A cocaine vaccine developed by a UK pharmaceutical company could help cocaine addicts kick their habit.
- It's National No-Smoking Day on Wednesday, a day when millions of tobacco addicts try to kick their unpleasant habit.
Synonyms
- The gun kicked so hard, Bethany smacked herself in the forehead.
- You expect very small, very powerful guns to kick hard enough to hurt you.
- The rifle kicked against his shoulder and the thundering of musket fire grew louder.
Synonyms
- But when the paramedics tried to leave, two youths attacked them, raining kicks and blows down on their heads and ribs.
- Zhao said she fell to her knees, and then felt repeated kicks or blows to both sides of her head.
- A more probable explanation for some injuries was that they were caused by blows and kicks.
Synonyms
- Wharfedale had chance to go ahead with a penalty but the kick was wide of the posts.
- The kick drifted wide of the posts and the visitors' place in the final was secured after a game that neither side deserved to lose.
- The kick again slid wide, but at 24-18 the game was well and truly alive again.
- There is a sudden kick on the rod and yes, it is indeed a fish, a perch that stays deep for several minutes before, slowly, it begins to swim to the surface.
- There was a sudden mighty kick, like a giant was shaking the ship, and Lazarus could feel his insides trembling.
- As I looked outside, I realized we were accelerating, but there was no associated kick.
- Many recruits were worried about the kick of a rifle.
- She could see that he hadn't been lying when he had mentioned the gun's vicious kick; some of the students were unprepared and flinched backwards on impact.
- Needing just pink and black to book a fourth round spot against David Roe, Davison got a nasty kick on the cueball, causing him to miss the pink and letting Finbow in to clinch the match.
- A Doherty break of 26 was then halted by a kick on the white.
- A nasty kick on the black prevented him from registering the highest break of the tournament.
- Cannabis is often an intermediary drug, used before the user moves onto harder drugs, when the kick of cannabis wears off.
- It comes in twelve different fruit flavours and the alcoholic kick is provided by schnapps.
- It tastes like watered down barley water with a bit of an alcoholic kick.
Synonyms
- She has a 15-year-old son who goes to Orchard Park, where teenagers were photographed sniffing petrol for kicks.
- Extra undercover officers will patrol city estates in a bid to curb the antics of youngsters who steal cars for kicks or take them for use in other crimes and then burn them out.
- He denied that pupils at his school were taking horse tranquillisers for kicks or that they were less than communicative because of their drug habits.
Synonyms
- Lately I have been back on the self-examination kick.
- It's part of the whole nostalgia kick, I suspect.
- The last couple of years I've been on a big Motown kick.
Synonyms
- You have only two days left to enter to win a hot new pair of Converse kicks.
- Worn-out soles will wear out your knees: replace them or pick up a new pair of kicks.
- I never knew his name, we just called him "boots" after the Western kicks he wore always.
Phrases
kick against the pricks
kick (some) ass (or butt)
kick someone's ass (or butt)
a kick at the can (or cat)
kick the bucket
kick the can down the road
kick one's heels
a kick in the pants (or up the backside)
kick someone in the pants (or up the backside)
a kick in the teeth
kick someone in the teeth
kick something into touch (or into the long grass)
kick oneself
kick over the traces
kick the shit out of
kick the tin
kick someone/thing to the curb
kick up a fuss (or a stink)
kick up one's heels
kick someone upstairs
kick someone when they are down
Phrasal verbs
kick against
kick around (or about)
kick someone around
kick something around (or about)
kick back
kick down
kick in
kick something in
kick off
kick on
kick someone out
kick up
Derivatives
kickable
- In all, he missed three kickable penalties and a drop goal.
- A good break by hooker Pat Humphries ultimately left Shane Ryan with the chance to drop at goal but he pushed a very kickable chance well wide.
- O'Carroll was unfortunate in missing two penalties from very kickable positions and these were to prove costly at the end of the game.
Origin
Late Middle English: of unknown origin.
Although it is such a common word, nobody seems to know the origin of kick. If you kick against the pricks the image is that of an ox fruitlessly kicking out at a whip or spur: the more it kicks, the more the driver goads it. The expression comes from the Bible story of Saul of Tarsus. He was an opponent of the followers of Jesus, and was going to Damascus to arrest any Christians in the city. On his journey he had a vision and heard the question, ‘Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?’ When he asked who the speaker was he was told, ‘I am Jesus who thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.’ After seeing the vision Saul became a Christian convert, under the new name Paul. If you kick over the traces the ‘traces’ in this expression are the two side straps which attach a draught horse to the vehicle it is pulling. If the animal is uncooperative or skittish and kicks out over these straps, the driver has difficulty in trying to regain control. To kick the bucket meaning ‘to die’ has been in use since the late 18th century, although its exact origins are not clear. One gruesome suggestion is that a person who wanted to commit suicide by hanging themselves might stand on a bucket while putting the noose round their neck and then kick the bucket away. Another idea looks back to an old sense of ‘bucket’ meaning ‘a beam used for hanging something on’. This meaning was also found in Norfolk dialect, in which it referred specifically to a beam from which a pig about to be slaughtered was suspended by its heels.
Rhymes
kick2
/kɪk/Origin
Mid 19th century: of unknown origin.
- image merchant
- imagemonger
- imagemongery
- image orthicon
- image processing
- image processor
- imager
- imagerial
- imagerially
- imagery
- imagery work
- imagesetter
- image stabilizer
- image toy
- image tube
- image worship
- image-worshipper
- image-worshipping
- imagey
- imagic
- imaginability
- imaginable
- imaginably
- imaginal
- imaginal disc