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

“I actually got a kick out of seeing myself on screen,” Sanchez says.

From Los Angeles Times

The 73-year-old retired clown started in fourth grade, with a poem about his teacher; it wasn’t flattering, but he got a kick out of saying what he thought.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pressure is mounting, and saltwater is being kicked out over vast distances.

From The Wall Street Journal

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