kick
noun
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
"A kick to the knee."
- 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.
"I finally saw the show. What a kick!"
- The removal of a person from an online activity.
- Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
"The car had a nasty kick the whole way."
- Piquancy.
- 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."
- A recoil of a gun.
- Pocket.
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
verb
- To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
"Did you kick your brother?"
- To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
"He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline kick."
- To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
"Kick the ball into the goal."
- (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
- To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
"He was kicked by ChanServ for flooding."
- To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
"I still smoke, but they keep telling me to kick the habit."
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
"He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast."
- (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
"Contador kicks again to try to rid himself of Rasmussen."
- To show opposition or resistance.
- To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
noun
- One who kicks.
- One who takes kicks.
- The kicking strap.
- An outboard motor.
- An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant.
"John wants to climb the wall, but the kicker is that it is thirty feet tall."
- An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
- An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.
"Jill's hand was two pair, aces and sevens, with a king kicker."
- Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
- The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
- A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
- A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
- A launch ramp.
- The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
- A relaxed party.
- A backlight positioned at an angle.
noun
- A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes and/or philosophy.
noun
- An introduction; something that leads into the beginning of something.
"After the long lead-in, the climax of the story was a disappointment."
- A region of data at the beginning of a compact disc, holding the table of contents.
- A short phrase that begins the caption of a photograph.
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