kick – English noun declension

English noun forms of kick

Noun: kick
Singularkick
Pluralkicks

Sample Sentences

  • A kick to the knee.
  • A kick of his boot-heel sent the door flying into the room. [1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 72:]
  • 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. [2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:]
  • The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.
  • These boys all use a kick similar to the kick presented here however, in some cases it is less modified than in others. [1935, Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, volume 6, number April 1935, page 26:]
  • 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 [1946, Bobby Troup, “Route 66”, performed by Nat King Cole:]
  • 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. [1954 January 4, “I Get a Kick Out of You”, in Songs for Young Lovers, performed by Frank Sinatra:]
  • «Ah, it’s all right, it’s just kicks. We only live once. We’re having a good time.» [1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 4, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 2:]
  • The “Mods” say it was the “Rockers” who came looking for trouble. Both groups, however, admit that they were “looking for kicks.” [1964 March 31, “Rival Teen‐Age Gangs Terrorize British Sea Resort”, in The New York Times:]
  • I have a theory […] that the Butterfield Band, who played in back of Dylan was really the Kingston Trio getting kicks […] [1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 13 Nov 2022, page 11:]
  • I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight / Get teenage kicks right through the night [1979, John O'Neill, “Teenage Kicks”, performed by The Undertones:]
  • This is a common experience among drug addicts who need stronger and stronger doses to regain the old 'kicks'. [1996, Samuel Brittan, Capitalism with a human face, page 136:]
  • They seek new kicks, new thrills, new adventures. [2010, Theodore J. Kaczynski, edited by David Skrbina, Technological Slavery, page 385:]
  • 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. [2002, Ellen and Michael Albertson, Temptations, Fireside, page 124 http://books.google.com/books?id=cITFVpz2ri8C&pg=PA124&dq=kick]
  • For extra kick, hollow out a lime, float it on top of the drink, and fill it with tequila. [2003, Sheree Bykofsky, Megan Buckley, Sexy City Cocktails, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 129:]
  • The first time I saw "Deep Water," the trace of mystery in the Crowhurst affair gave the movie a kick of excitement. [2007 August 27, Anthony Lane, “Lone Sailors”, in The New Yorker, volume 83, numbers 22-28:]
  • 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. [2011 December 18, Jay Rayner, “Restaurant review: Aurelia”, in The Observer, →ISSN:]
  • 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. [1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Quit Foolin’ with That Comb”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 44:]
  • Her mind couldn’t lose sight of […]the bloodied nickel plated pistol Angie had in his kick. [1952, George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, Bobs-Merrill, page 383:]
  • 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. [2008, P.G.Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally (Volume 2 of 2)^(https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Adventures_of_Sally_Volume_2_of_2_Ea/xgDo0M2Q3FQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22it+in+(his%7Cher%7Cmy%7Cyour)+kick%22&pg=PA277&printsec=frontcover), ReadHowYouWant.com, page 277:]
  • If you keep Nan’s advice you’ll keep it in your kick. [2008, Loren D. Estleman, Port Hazard:A Page Murdock Novel^(https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Port_Hazard/_xrwWAAVU40C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22it+in+(his%7Cher%7Cmy%7Cyour)+kick%22&pg=PT88&printsec=frontcover), Tom Doherty Associates:]
  • You take that and put it in your kick. I’ve had plenty of cash out of you already. [2012, Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust), Silvertip’s Trap, Adams Media:]
  • Two and a kick—two shillings and a kick. [1912, French's Acting Edition of Plays, Dramas, Extravaganzas, Farces etc., page 12:]
  • That's the stuff that will do the trick / Sold at every chemist for one and a kick [1941, Eddie Latta, George Formby, “Auntie Maggie's Remedy”, performed by George Formby:]
  • All the other kids with the pumped up kicks / You better run, better run, outrun my gun [2010, Mark Foster, “Pumped Up Kicks”, performed by Foster the People:]

Etymology

From Middle English kyken (“to strike out with the foot”), from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”) and keikja (“to bend backwards”) (compare Old Norse keikr (“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz (“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kī-, *kij- (“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH- (“to sprout, shoot”). Compare also Dutch kijken (“to look”), Middle Low German kīken (“to look, watch”). See keek. See: Old Norse Nouns 'kikna', Old Norse Nouns 'keikr'.

Verbs referencing "kick"

Dutch Nouns kick, Irish Nouns cic, German Nouns Kick.