Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to pay up.

1935		(con. 1920s) J.T. Farrell Judgement Day in Studs Lonigan (1936) 505: I’m kicking out my twelve-fifty a share.
1986		W.D. Myers Sweet Illusions 37: ‘He tells me I got to kick out a thou a week? [...] He gonna get a big smile and some empty pockets’ .
2008		Simon & Burns ‘More with Less’ Wire ser. 5 ep. 1 [TV script] No-one’s kickin’ out O.T.

2. to work something out.

1932

D. Hammett ‘Too Many Have Lived’ in Nightmare Town (2001) 312: Take it easy [...] We’ll kick it out together.

3. to play music enthusiastically, with life and vitality.

1939		Goodman & Kolodin Kingdom of Swing 135: The point was that no white band had yet gotten together a good rhythm section that would kick out, or jump, or rock, or swing (all these expressions being ways musicians have of describing the life and vitality that comes from music that is played at just the right tempo with a lot of enthusiasm and unified rhythmic snap .
1939		P.E. Miller Down Beat’s Yearbook of Swing n.p.: kicking out: very free; improvising.
1978		Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 3: kick out some jam – to play music in a very involved, often loud, manner.

4. vtr. to search a victim prior to a robbery, to rob.

1965

H. Williamson Hustler 175: I took her wallet, and I had to go down in her little titties and get her dope, ’cause she wouldn’t give that up. We went around to an alley and kicked her out.

5. to fail.

1983

D. Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross 17: A deal kicks out [...] I still got to eat.

6. to produce, to create.

2000		P. Beatty Tuff 167: Ol’ girl was kicking out gear, jewelry, sucking balls.
2009		W.D. Myers Dope Sick 109: People in their business suits rushing around [...] When they kick out the news every night, that’s who they’re talking about.