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Kicking

noun

A rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics. Synonym: kick. "The swimmer's kicking left a wake behind him"

The act of delivering a blow with the foot. Synonyms: boot, kick. "The team's kicking was excellent"

Kick

verb

(past & past part. kicked; pres. part. kicking)

Drive or propel with the foot.

Thrash about or strike out with the feet.

Strike with the foot. "Kick the door down"

Kick a leg up.

Spring back, as from a forceful thrust. Synonyms: kick back, recoil.

Stop consuming. Synonym: give up. "Give up alcohol"

Make a goal.

Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness. Synonyms: complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off. "She has a lot to kick about"

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"Kicking" Quotes from Famous Books

... God Almighty had allowed himself to fall in love with you and me, Jinny, he couldn't have made us all alive and kicking. You must be God Almighty to Hambleby or he ...

— The Creators - A Comedy • May Sinclair

... string; and had fastened to the end of the string a pellet of tobacco stolen from the old man's pouch. With this bait he had been fishing in the lotus pond; and a frog had swallowed it, and was now suspended high above the pebbles, sprawling in rotary motion, kicking in frantic spasms of disgust and ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

... Joe's average was four. He had been heard to boast that on one occasion he had been accompanied to the station by seven bobbies, but that was before the force had studied Joe and got him down to his correct mathematical equivalent. Now they tripped him up, a policeman taking one kicking leg and another the other, while the remaining two attended to the upper part of his body. Thus they carried him, followed by an admiring crowd, and watched by other envious drunkards who had to content themselves with a single officer when they went on a similar spree. Sometimes Joe managed ...

— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... herself who was first upon the little balcony of the window by which the dead man was still sitting. Father Michel, Huey MacGrath, and I followed, and going down the steps I struck my foot against some light object, kicking it far ahead of me, and on the instant Nancy sprang forward, leaned over and picked up something in ...

— Nancy Stair - A Novel • Elinor Macartney Lane

... George Birt, with gratifying alacrity. He raised himself from his [v]recumbent position, and Ethan heard him shambling off, kicking every now and then at the fallen leaves as ...

— The Literary World Seventh Reader • Various

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