kick out
Britishverb
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informal to eject or dismiss
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basketball (of a player who has dribbled towards the basket) to pass the ball to a player further away from the basket
noun
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basketball an instance of kicking out the ball
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(in Gaelic football) a free kick to restart play after a goal or after the ball has gone out of play
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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]
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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
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“I kick out the other one that is not a Bentley and replace it with this car,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
If you get a kick out of each other’s company, you don’t need similar bank accounts to make it work.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Dan said the next move in the "diplomatic hierarchy of measures" would be to kick out the Russian ambassador.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
“It makes him laugh because he knows it’s just so deliciously bad that he gets a kick out of it, but he is going to do something about it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
I felt bad, but there was a little part of me that smiled, because I could tell she was getting a real kick out of this.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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