kick n.4
a pocket, esp. in trousers.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘The Slap-Up Cracksman’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 43: So flick the suck — or draw the clicks, / The lil, the jam, or bung from kicks. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bell’s Life in Sydney 20 Mar. 2/6: The roudy landlord was [...] extracting the loose pewter from the kicks of the heterogenous assembly of ball-em-offs. | |
| advert in Vulgar Tongue (1857) 45: Having some ready in his kick – [he] grabbed the chance – stepped home with the swag – and is now safely landed at his crib. | |
| Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 6/1: Blasting her bloody eyes for such luck, she would call for the ‘max,’ and say that was all the ‘flat’ had in his [...] ‘kick’. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 23 Nov. 2/2: $500 never went to its legitimate purpose, but stuck like glue in the aforesaid gentleman’s ‘kick’. | |
| Sl. Dict. | |
| Sporting Times 13 Feb. 5/5: D’ye ken John Bull? — why of course ye do, / With his quids in his kick in the morning. | |
| Dead Bird (Sydney) 16 Nov. 4/4: I got my hand, accidentally, into a old joker's kick, but ’e had nothing [...] and a nother bloke got ’is five I finger exercises on to me, which was dry hash, as [...] I’d left my I staff at ’ome. | |
| Sporting Times 1 Jan. 3/2: The son of a farmer with a well-lined kick, in all probability. | |
| Truth (Sydney) 23 Sept. 6/5: He did not find that out until later, without any coin in his ‘kick’. | |
| Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/8: ‘He stood up [...] to make a snide book on the furst race with no brass at all in his kicksy’. | |
| Barkeep Stories 52: Every little while he’d dig up one o’ dem little roun’ lookin’-glasses out of his kick. | |
| It’s Up to You 62: I’ve got a bunch of first-class smokes in my kick. | |
| Pitcher in Paradise 183: A tumbler o’ G.S.D. an’ seltzer in his fist an’ a monkey in his kick. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 4 June 4/8: I’ve a bob in my kick, am in fairly good nick. | |
| ‘Types’ Variety Stage Eng. Plays 🌐 I have a copped a poke and screened it / ’Till I cleaned it then I’ve jeaned it / Back into the kick I nipped it from without the slightest slip. | |
| ‘Omaha Slim’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 115: I got forty cents jinglin’ in my kick. | |
 | World of Living Dead (1929) n.p.: The ‘hook’ picks out a likely looking ‘kick’ or pocket. | |
| Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 20 Aug. 11/2: Slanguage [...] Arithy. If hot dogs are a deaner a dozen at the fish and chip shop, and a bloke drifts in with ’arf a dollar in his kick, how many eats does he get? Answer to the nearest scrum. | |
| (con. 1910) Crooks of the Und. 222: Come on, Tom. Put that lot in yer kick. | |
| ‘Tobias the Terrible’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 111: He takes Joey’s rod and puts it in his hip kick. | |
| Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks 6: Kick (or kit): Trousers pocket. | |
| Night and the City 122: Never goes out with less than as hundred quid in his kick. | |
| Headless Lady (1987) 47: A kick is [...] specifically a coat pocket. A breech kick is a trouser pocket; a prat kick or a prop is a hip pocket. | |
| Really the Blues 44: Some nights I’d try my luck in the crap game and wind up with a grand or more in my kick. | |
| Rap Sheet 27: There was still plenty of money in my kicker. | |
| Big Smoke 146: You shove it in your kick. | |
| Crust on its Uppers 39: I’m about to stuff my pony in my kick. | |
| Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 37: He’s the best tenor man on the coast, and all he has in his kick is a wad of pawn ticktets. | |
| Glass Canoe (1982) 142: The first thing he pulls out of his kick is a twenty-dollar bill. | |
| Wiseguy (2001) 180: I put seven in my own kick. | |
| You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 15: He’d finished with a few dollars in his kick. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | (con. 1920s) Legs 89: I wound up west of Crawford Avenue with three bucks’ change in my kick. | |
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers xvi: By the time ‘Samson’ Bunter got back to his new residence from Randy he was as full as a brewery horse’s fart and a good bit lighter in the kick. | |
| Layer Cake 6: He likes his ladies, his clothes and a quarter mill a year in his kick. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 99/2: kick n. a pocket. | |
| Money-Whipped Steer-Job 50: Totaled up, that gave me 284, a tie for fourth, and $165,00 [sic] to put in the kick. | |
| Viva La Madness 287: The cash is gone [...] in Stevie’s kick, no doubt. | |
| ‘Carny Lingo’ in http://goodmagic.com 🌐 Kick — The pocket (or wherever) a carny keeps his personal money. | |
| (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 24: There were three fat rolls of twenties in his kick. |
In compounds
(Aus.) of a bookmaker, a bank of money used for the job.
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers xvii: [F]rom time to time when he’d suffered a bit of a setback at the track and needed to rebuild his clever kick (punting bank), The Flea would go and get himself a job for a while. |
In phrases
(UK police/und.) to rob (in the street).
| No Hiding Place! 190/2: Get down his Kick or Sky. To rob a person. |
(Aus.) to spend one’s money, e.g. when buying a round of drinks.
| It’s Your Shout, Mate! 36: It was my turn to ‘shout’, so I ‘hit the kick’. | |
| (con. 1959) Up the Cross 150: ‘Allow good ole Irish to hit the kick. You still on the vodka, Scholar?’. | |
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers xviii: He was always lightning quick to hit the kick when his shout came up. |
(US Und.) the inside pocket of a jacket or coat.
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |