Kick

Did you kick your brother?

1895, George MacDonald, Lilith, Chapter XII: Friends and Foes, I was cuffed by the women and kicked by the men because I would not swallow it.

A punt is made by letting the ball drop from the hands and kicking it just before it touches the ground.

Will Henderson, who had on a light overcoat and no overshoes, kicked the heel of his left foot with the toe of the right.

Or to put it in the more colourful language of our Prime Minister: "The secret to improving rail transport, in my view, is you need to find the right arse to kick." Unfortunately, since the abolition of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) in 2005, the DfT has ostensibly been in direct control of railway policy setting, and this has meant that the only arse the government has been able to kick is its own.

He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline kick.

Sometimes we had rather rough play, for they would frequently bite and kick as well as gallop.

1904, Stratemeyer Syndicate, The Bobbsey Twins, Chapter II: Rope Jumping, and What Followed, "If you did that, I'd kick," answered Freddie, and began to kick real hard into the air.

Kick the ball into the goal.

Sometimes he can kick the ball forward along the ground until it is kicked in goal, where he can fall on it for a touchdown.

"He's been mad at me ever since I fired him off'n my payroll. After I kicked him off'n my ranch he run for sheriff, and the night of the election everybody was so drunk they voted for him by mistake, or for a joke, or somethin', and since he's been in office he's been lettin' the sheepmen steal me right out of house and home."

They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.

Dial 1-900-Mix-a-Lot and kick them nasty thoughts.

She was kicked from the IRC server for flooding.

I still smoke, but they keep telling me to kick the habit.

He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast.

The back of the car kicked out violently, forcing me to steer into the slide and accelerate in order to maintain control.

Lying on the ground, when fired, it kicked me back a foot. There was no way a person my size was going to be able to do an effective job with this gun.

I asked my sister Jeanette if she wanted to shoot the 12 ga. shotgun. She replied, "does it kick"?

Contador kicks again to try to rid himself of Rasmussen.

In the meantime, it is possible for the embedded software to “kick” the watchdog timer, to reset its counter to the original large number.

From now on the process has to periodically kick the watchdog timer in intervals shorter than the initialization interval.

He's still kicking himself for not investing three years ago.

A kick to the knee.

A kick of his boot-heel sent the door flying into the room.

Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.

The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.

I finally saw the show. What a kick!

I think I sprained something on my latest exercise kick.

get a kick out of

get one's kicks

Won't you get hip to this kindly tip / When you ride that California trip / Get your kicks on Route 66

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So tell me why should it be true that I get a kick out of you. Some hey may go for cocaine. I'm sure that if I took even one sniff it would bore me terrifically, too. Yet, I get a kick out of you.[…]I get no kick in a plane. Flying too high with some gal in the sky is my idea of nothing to do. Yet I get a kick. You give me a boot. I get a kick out of you.

«Ah, it’s all right, it’s just kicks. We only live once. We’re having a good time.»

The “Mods” say it was the “Rockers” who came looking for trouble. Both groups, however, admit that they were “looking for kicks.”

I have a theory […] that the Butterfield Band, who played in back of Dylan was really the Kingston Trio getting kicks […]

I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight / Get teenage kicks right through the night

This is a common experience among drug addicts who need stronger and stronger doses to regain the old 'kicks'.

They seek new kicks, new thrills, new adventures.

The car had a nasty kick the whole way.

The pool ball took a wild kick, up off the table.

Add a little cascabel pepper to ordinary tomato sauce to give it a kick.

For extra kick, hollow out a lime, float it on top of the drink, and fill it with tequila.

The first time I saw "Deep Water," the trace of mystery in the Crowhurst affair gave the movie a kick of excitement.

Then again this is Mayfair. A big, rustling bowl of deep-fried squid with a salty chilli kick cost £7.50; a generous pile of jamon croquetas, the shells giving way to something creamy and intensely hammy within, was 50p less.

a long kick up the field.

Some nights I’d try my luck in the crap game and wind up with a grand or more in my kick.

Her mind couldn’t lose sight of […]the bloodied nickel plated pistol Angie had in his kick.

Swell shows all of ‘em, except this last one. […] Set me back two-seventy-five, including tax, and I wish I’d got it in my kick right now.

If you keep Nan’s advice you’ll keep it in your kick.

You take that and put it in your kick. I’ve had plenty of cash out of you already.

Two and a kick—two shillings and a kick.

That's the stuff that will do the trick / Sold at every chemist for one and a kick

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks / You better run, better run, outrun my gun

Who knows what will happen to his billions when the eighty-five-year-old kicks, but before he leaves the planet, Moon reportedly is hell-bent on creating a holy land in North Korea, dedicated to him.

That band really kicks.