kicky
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of kicky
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“Go easy with the salt, since the feta itself is salty as can be. But be brave with the black pepper — floral and kicky, it’s a wonderful match for spring fruit.”
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
In this photo, Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla wears a quintessential 1960s ensemble: you know, without even seeing the hem, that this kicky lace dress is a mini.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2023
Haynes spoke by phone from his L.A. hotel room about his kicky, kinetic film, “The Velvet Underground.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
It dissolved into a kicky but laid-back medley of the bossa nova standards “Once I Loved” and “Wave.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2021
"That stuff they run yesterday shore is kicky," Joe ruminated sympathetically.
From The Trail of the White Mule by B. M. Bower
In one of the film's kickier episodes, Doris becomes a wildly unlikely hipster and album cover model when she unwittingly impresses the front man for John's favorite band.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2016
It proved to be the most critically divisive movie of 1968 and for some the kickiest.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2018
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