kick out

British  

verb

1. informal to eject or dismiss

2. basketball (of a player who has dribbled towards the basket) to pass the ball to a player further away from the basket

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noun

1. basketball an instance of kicking out the ball

2. (in Gaelic football) a free kick to restart play after a goal or after the ball has gone out of play

kick out Idioms  

1. Also, boot out . Throw out, dismiss, especially ignominiously. For example, George said they'd been kicked out of the country club , or The owner booted them out of the restaurant for being loud and disorderly . This idiom alludes to expelling someone with a kick in the pants . [Late 1600s]

2. Supply, especially in a sorted fashion, as in The bureau kicked out the precise data for this month's production . [ Slang ; late 1900s]

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Example Sentences

He has since kicked out each of the boys one by one — first her elder son, then his own son and most recently the youngest, who is only 13.

From MarketWatch

People were already making adult decisions, getting kicked out, not having a job, not understanding that it’s real life happening right now.

From Los Angeles Times

Johnson Wen said on Instagram that he was "kicked out" of the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Tuesday night before the Lady Gaga show had started.

From BBC

The city of Los Angeles had envisioned grand housing projects there and kicked out the residents, long before the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn.

From Los Angeles Times

Children ages 8-12 are the right age to get a kick out of “Everything You Know About the Human Body Is Wrong!”

From The Wall Street Journal