kick out

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

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

Idioms and Phrases

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]

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