kidnoun
uk/kɪd/us/kɪd/kid noun (CHILD)
B1 [ C ] informal a child:
[ C ] informal a young person:
someone's younger sister or brother
to be very happy and excited about the things around you, and often react to them in a way that is silly and not controlled:
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- She knows the name of every kid in the school.
- He was the eldest of four kids.
- The kids always clutter up the hall with school bags and coats and stuff.
- She had to get the kids ready for school.
- My daughter used to play with the kids next door.
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Children & babies
- a mouth to feed idiom
- arrival
- babe
- babe in arms
- baby
- childlike
- childproof
- children
- crawler
- designer baby
- oops-a-daisy
- pacifier
- papoose
- perisher
- pest
- tomboy
- tot
- tyke
- urchin
- waif
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kid noun (ANIMAL)
[ C ] a young goat
[ U ] very soft leather made from the skin of a young goat:
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Animal young
- baby
- bugger
- calf
- calves
- chick
- colt
- cub
- fledgling
- foal
- frogspawn
- fry
- gosling
- heifer
- litter
- owlet
- peachick
- piglet
- pup
- puppy
- spawn
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Idiom(s)
kidverb [ I or T ]
uk/kɪd/us/kɪd/-dd- informalto say something as a joke, often making someone believe something that is not true:
to believe something that is not true, usually because you want it to be true:
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Teasing
- joke
- josh
- leg
- only joking! idiom
- pull sb's leg idiom
- rag
- raillery
- rib
- ribbing
- spoof
- standing joke
- tease
- wind 1
- wind sb up
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