Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./N.Z.) a general term of abuse; also attrib.

1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 9: ‘[H]e got holda one drop kick by the left warwick and yanked him into the whisper and stamped on his loaf with his right plate’’.
1993		B. Moore Lex. of Cadet Lang. 125: drop kick [noun] a fool, a fuckwit, a total failure, a hopeless case, a wipe-out, an utter drongo.
1993		T. Winton Lockie Leonard: Scumbuster (1995) 144: ‘The Ninja Turtle?’ ‘No, you dropkick, the painter.’.
2002		R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 1: Les might have been a bit of a dropkick in Leaving Bondi.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl.
2021		P. Papathanasiou Stoning 62: Manolis would [...] cruise the streets with his dropkick mates.