kick out v.1
1. to eject, to force to leave.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘A Ramble in St. James’s Park’ in Works (1999) 80: Loath’d and depriv’d, kick’d out of Town, / Into some dirty Hole alone, / To chew the Cud of Misery. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Salmagundi (1860) 284: A few noisy patriots, on the other side, who have been kicked out. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Justified Sinner 50: ‘O, this will never do. Kick him out of the play-ground! Knock down the scoundrel’. | |
| Peter Simple (1911) 190: I think that her kicking us out of her house is a proof of her sincerity. | |
| Punch 24 July I 15: Kick that beggar out! | |
| G’hals of N.Y. 41: I only wonder if it’ll be ole One Eye that they kick out, when they perpose me? | |
| Bill Arp 159: Well, the South went out mighty unwillingly [...] She had been mighty nigh kicked out for a long time, and there was a big party that wanted us to go out and stay out. | |
| My Secret Life (1966) II 271: She was to tell to Robert, that unless he held his tongue he would be kicked out without a character. | |
| Sporting Times 18 Jan. 1: We don’t feel at all certain that it wouldn’t have been better to create a salutary funk by kicking the Portuguese neck and crop out of their Colonial possessions. | |
| Pitcher in Paradise 194: Conduct this squalid blackmailer to the gates an’ kick him out. | |
| Dope 272: ‘You’re practically kicking me out, sir,’ he said. ‘I don’t know what I’ve done.’. | |
| Main Stem 116: That experience of his in the district attorney’s office. He said he couldn’t stand it. Bull. Bet they couldn’t stand him. Bet they kicked him out. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Capricornia (1939) 67: Shut up or I’ll kick you out! | |
| (con. 1944) Naked and Dead 15: Maybe I won’t give her some lumps before I kick her out. | |
| Tomboy (1952) 53: If you want, you can beat it. If you don’t, you don’t get another chance till [...] you’re one of us or we kick you out. | |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn 108: Even these joints with their hustlers, pushers, pimps, queens and wouldbe thugs kicked her out. | |
| Spend, Spend, Spend [TV script] Scene 92: I got kicked out ... thanks to the English Sunday papers. Deported. | |
| Down and Out 150: ‘He’s kicked me out,’ she said. ‘I’m staying with George now.’. | |
| Vinnie Got Blown Away 127: Left his tart after a bit or got kicked out, depending who you listen to. | |
| Random Family 52: Periodically, George beat Jessica and kicked her out. | |
| Price You Pay 100: But you got this itsy bitsy practice. I can’t work for the bigs I got kicked out. | |
| Widespread Panic 15: ‘He’s been living at the Y since I kicked him out’. |
2. to die [late 20C+ use only W.I.].
| ‘Bail Up!’ 112: I’m not so badly off, even if he does kick out to-night. | |
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. | |
| (con. 1918–19) Beginning of Wisdom 290: All the papes said he kicked out with the heart-disease. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Ulysses 119: Old Chatterton, the vice-chancellor is his granduncle or his greatgranduncle. Close on ninety they say. [...] Daresay he writes him an odd shaky cheque or two on gale days. Windfall when he kicks out. Alleluia. | |
| Let Tomorrow Come 88: You don’t like to see an old skate like that kick out. | |
| Scorpions 163: ‘They ain’t gonna mess with you if they know you ain’t scared to use the piece [...] Ain’t nobody in no big hurry to kick out’. |
3. to run away.
| DSUE (1984) 642: C.20. | |
| in Living Dangerously 167: If you kick out (move away from the gang) [...] it’s hard. |
4. (US Und.) to appear suddenly.
| Wash. Post 21 Jan. 2/7: Kicks out – Appears suddenly, as if from hiding. |
5. to get out of bed.
| DSUE (1984) 642: from ca. 1910. |
6. see kick v.4
In phrases
referring to an attractive woman; a comment usu. made by one of a group of young men observing a passing woman.
| Dark Hazard (1934) 75: Johnny spat out into the street and observed, quietly: ‘I wouldn’t kick her out of bed.’. | |
| Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 78: She’s very attractive [and] I wouldn’t kick her under the bed. | |
| Maledicta IX 195: This article and series devoted to sexual slang would be incomplete without some notice of catch phrases, both British and American: […] I wouldn’t kick her out of bed. | |
| Trainspotting 302: I wouldn’t kick that out of bed. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
to bow in an unsophisticated ‘rustic’ manner.
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Hind Leg. To Kick out a hind leg To make a Bow. | |
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: To kick out a hind leg; to make a rustic bow. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |