Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US Und.) to smash one’s way through a door, to break in and burglarize.

1912		D. Lowrie My Life in Prison 280: If I was you I’d cough up about kicking in the P.O.
1933		‘Goat’ Laven Rough Stuff 98: We figured that we might do a little prowling. We kicked into the first farmhouse we come to.
1991		L. Bing Do or Die (1992) 33: They was takin’ all the money out [...] So when they was comin’ out the doors, we just kicked in.