kick adj.
1. (US drugs) describing anything relating to coming off an addiction, e.g. kick pad or kick ward, a hospital ward reserved for recovering addicts [kick v.4 (1)].
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Holy Barbarians 22: Dolophenes are kick pills to alleviate the discomfort of being without heroin when you’re sick. | |
| Blue Knight 35: I went to a kick pad over on the east side and asked them to sign me in. | |
 | Poor Mag. Online 10 Apr. 🌐 [She was] placed in a tank where all the other women are detoxing cold-turkey from heroin. [...] One of the other women in the ‘kick tank’ with Anita, has diabetes and epilepsy, and no medication. |
2. (US teen) unfashionable [? should be kicked out].
| in San Jose Mercury News 11 May n.p.: Kick (adj) – Out of style. Those jackets are kick. |