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View synonyms for kick out

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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“We just wanted to recognize those guys, what they do for the city of L.A. And hopefully they get a kick out of it.”

She discussed how he would get a kick out of feeding baby chickens and mice into a blender to feed his hawks.

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Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said the honours were "rewards for the failure of a dreadful Conservative government that was rightly kicked out of office".

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After a fan was kicked out after saying something to annoy Dimitrov, the Bulgarian made a slow start to the second set.

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"He's not kicked out of F1," Marko said, "and Racing Bulls will give him the chance to recover and his career will start again."

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