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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Half-back Lewis' foolish kick out on York skipper Harris could mean he misses next week's World Club Challenge against National Rugby League premiers Brisbane Broncos through suspension.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
“I actually got a kick out of seeing myself on screen,” Sanchez says.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025
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 • Dec. 27, 2025
It was filed by Kevin Clouse of Georgia, who was trapped in his Model 3 during a 2023 crash and was forced to kick out a window to escape.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025
Schindler seemed to get a kick out of that.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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