kick at an open door
to take an unnecessary or easy action
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kick at the can
to procrastinate or delay taking action
kick back
relax and enjoy oneself
kick bollocks scramble
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
kick butt
to do something very well or successfully
kick in
to start working or having an effect
kick in the teeth
A severe disappointment or setback
kick into the long grass
To delay or avoid making a decision or taking action
kick into touch
To dismiss or evade a problem or issue
kick it
to start or begin something
kick loose
to escape or break free from something
kick off
start or initiate an event or activity
kick one's heels
To wait impatiently or idly
kick out
to force someone to leave a place
kick out the jams
To express oneself freely and energetically, often through music or performance
kick over the traces
To be over-extravagant. Any one who has come to grief by fast living is said to have KICKED OVER THE TRACES.
kick rocks
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
kick some tail
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
kick some tires
Examine or test something informally
kick someone when they are down
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
kick someone's ass
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
kick the beam
to be weighed and found wanting
kick the can down the road
To delay or avoid making a decision or taking action
kick the tires
Examine or test something to assess its quality or functionality
kick the tyres
Test or evaluate something to see if it is working properly
kick to the curb
to reject or abandon someone
kick up
A noise or disturbance.
kick up one's heels
To celebrate or have a good time, often in a lively or uninhibited way
kick upstairs
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
kick with the other foot
to change one's behavior or approach
kickeraboo
Dead. A West Indian negro’s phrase. See KICK THE BUCKET, of which phrase it is a corruption.
kicking and screaming
strongly resisting or protesting something
kicking boots
dancing energetically
kicks
Breeches. A high kick; the top of the fashion. It is all the kick; it is the present mode. Tip us your kicks, we'll have them as well as your lour; pull off your breeches, for we must have them as well as your money. A kick; sixpence. Two and a kick; half-a-crown. A kick in the guts; a dram of gin, or any other spirituous liquor. A kick up; a disturbance, also a hop or dance. An odd kick in one's gallop; a strange whim or peculiarity.
kicks and giggles
for fun or entertainment
kickseys
Trousers.
kickseys
Or KICKSIES, trousers.
kickshaws
French dishes: corruption of quelque chose.
kickshaws
Trifles; made, or French dishes—not English or substantial. Anything of a fancy description now. Corruption of the French QUELQUES CHOSES.
kicksy
Troublesome, disagreeable. German, KECK, bold.
kid
A little dapper fellow. A child. The blowen has napped the kid. The girl is with child.
kid
An infant, or child. From the German kind; or possibly from the name for the young of a goat. Also, a shallow dish in which sailors receive their portions of food.
kid around
to joke or tease someone
kid lay
Rogues who make it their business to defraud young apprentices, or errand-boys, of goods committed to their charge, by prevailing on them to execute some trifling message, pretending to take care of their parcels till they come back; these are, in cant terms, said to be on the kid lay.
kid-on
To entice or incite a person to the perpetration of an act.
kidden
Or KIDKEN, a low lodging-house for boys.
kidder
A forestaller: see CROCKER. Kidders are also persons employed by the gardeners to gather peas.
kiddie
A child.
kiddie table
A position or situation considered inferior or less important
kiddily
Fashionably or showily; "KIDDILY togg’d," showily dressed.
kiddleywink
A small shop where are retailed the commodities of a village store. Originally KIDDLE-A-WINK, from the offer made, with a wink, to give you something out of the kettle or kiddle. In the west country an alehouse. Also, a woman of unsteady habits.
kiddy
A man, or boy. Formerly a low thief.
kiddy nippers
Taylors out of work, who cut off the waistcoat pockets of their brethren, when cross-legged on their board, thereby grabbling their bit. CANT.
kidment
Humbug, coarse chaff or jocularity.
kidnapper
Originally one who stole or decoyed children or apprentices from their parents or masters, to send them to the colonies; called also spiriting: but now used for all recruiting crimps for the king's troops, or those of the East India company, and agents for indenting servants for the plantations, &c.
kidnapper
Originally one who stole children. Now applied without reference to the age or sex of those stolen. From "kid," a child, and "nab" (corrupted to "nap"), to steal, or seize.
kidney
A waiter.
kidney
Disposition, principles, humour. Of a strange kidney; of an odd or unaccountable humour. A man of a different kidney; a man of different principles.
kidney
"of that KIDNEY," of such a stamp; "strange KIDNEY," odd humour; "two of a KIDNEY," two persons of a sort, or as like as two peas, i.e., resembling each other like two kidneys in a bunch.—Old. "Attempt to put their hair out of KIDNEY."—Terræ Filius, 1763.
kidsman
One who trains boys to thieve and pick pockets successfully.