king hit v.
1. to deliver a surprise punch.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sport (Adelaide) 16 Nov. 13/2: They Say [...] That Bunner H. was [...] with his mob of hard hits [...] looking for drunks to king. | |
| Kalgoorlie Miner (WA) 16 Nov. 4/7: Kennedy walked out of the Mason Dore restaurant [...] and seeing Modera on the side-walk ‘king-hit’ him and left him lying on the pavement. | |
| Truth (Perth) 11 Aug. 3/5: [He] complained that the victor had king-hit him, or put in the boots. | |
| Cessnock Eagle (NSW) 7 Aug. 8/4: ‘I turned away,’ said Grainger, ‘and Keenes “King-hit” me!’. | |
 | Border Watch (Mt Gambier, SA) 27 Nov. 4/4: We walked over near some men, and one of them ‘kinghitted’ him. | |
| Herald (Melbourne) 11 June 3/8: Bottles of wine and beer were consumed. Cowin behaved like a madman, hit a Mrs Brady and ‘king-hit’ him. | |
| Canberra Times (ACT) 10 Apr. 26/3: A mob of spectators had jumped the [...] fence [...] and one angry fan had ‘king-hit’ him on the jaw. | |
| Real Thing 112: A bit of an all-in started and George king-hit Les. | |
| Neddy (1998) 308: There have been plenty of rumors about what happened that day. Tom said I king-hit him. Well, I did throw the first punch. Someone has to, don’t they? | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 100/2: king hit v. to hit a person (usually with a punch to the face) with the intention of knocking him unconscious. | |
| Mystery Bay Blues 244: ‘Then you knocked out Mick Ross too’ [...] ‘Well, I king hit him,’ admitted Les. | |
| Peepshow [ebook] Then someone king-hit me on the side of the head. | |
| Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] He king hit me in the temple! And it bloody hurt. | |
| Opal Country 297: ‘He’s the fucker who king-hit me’. |
2. to knock down.
| Lucky Palmer 72: ‘Snow’ flattened him. King-hit him, he did. Les didn’t get up. | |
| West Australian (Perth) 23 Aug. 20/2: Terms which are still popular — [...] stonker, king hit, stoush. | |
| Holy Smoke 13: Best take this lot though, in case he tries to king-hit yer first time up. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Apr. 45: Another time when we all worked London he kinged a floorwalker just to let the bagman off the hook. | |
| Sun. Too Far Away 23: He turns and king hits the innocent alongside of him. | |
| Dinkum Aussie Dict. 32: King hit: To knock someone down unfairly with a single blow, normally delivered without warning. If one has been king hit one has been knocked senseless. One can also be kinged which is the same thing. | |
| Pushed from the Wings (1989) 109: Then arrest the marchers and king-hit a few. | |
| Age (Melbourne) 22 Jan. 148/6: I saw a man king-hit his wife. |