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]

Example Sentences

Some feel Ben Thomas was fortunate to avoid suspension after kicking out when held off the ball by Argentina flanker Pablo Matera last Sunday.

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"I actually think he would get a kick out it," Louis says.

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Wales centre Ben Thomas was shown a costly a first-half yellow card for kicking out at Argentina flanker Pablo Matera and can count himself lucky not to have been shown red for the reckless act.

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The other day, while catching up with an American mom in Italy, she told me about her friend in Los Angeles who got kicked out of a restaurant.

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By the age of 14, Davis had been kicked out of school, kicked out of his childhood home and was adapting to the responsibility of caring for newborn twin sons.

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