kicky

kicky

1. slang Fashionable, exciting, or amusing, especially in an unusual or unconventional way. The director is known for making kicky films that value style over substance. The hotel has a kicky design that sets it apart from others in the city.
2. slang Especially potent, pungent, or spicy; having a noticeable kick. They serve their tacos with a kicky sauce that will tingle your taste buds. The bar's signature cocktail features a kicky blend of absinthe, crème de menthe, and ginger.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

kicky

mod. exciting and energetic. Man, what a kicky idea!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • kinky
  • vogue
  • have a whale of a (good) time
  • have a whale of a time
  • a whale of a (good) time
  • whale of a time
  • fly (one's) freak flag
  • be out there
  • out there
  • the new black
References in periodicals archive
At my first literary festival, I stepped on a nest of bumblebees and went from the emergency room to the stage, where I gave my first reading barefoot because my feet were too swollen for my kicky boots.
The film's disco pulse gives it a throb of ecstasy, and this does more than create a handful of kicky musical sequences.
Kasliwal has Jaipur-based Dutch designer Marie-Anne Oudejans to thank for that kicky pairing.
"Even though I'm a very kicky 56, I have lots of childhood memories of the cartoons that were coming out during Watergate," he said, listing off names of artists like Pat Oliphant, Paul Conrad, Jeff MacNelly, Mike Peters.
"I'm a sweaty mess, but I'm a sweaty mess in an adorable tank!" she captioned the pic, which shows her sporting a kicky striped top from her Calia by Carrie Underwood fitness clothing line.
But, the show's featured boutique hotel takes the kicky concept up several notches, so we hope other establishments 'idiosyncratically' follow suit!
"My" masculinity can be found somewhere between Ed Ruscha's Twenty-six Gasoline Stations, 1963, and Collier's "Women Crying." (The metaphoric chain connecting these two photographic series includes tear gas.) In rigorous and in fanciful aesthetic procedures begins the replenishment--through critique, through reenactment, through ritual, through kicky if sober-seeming detournements--of depleted resources.
It is that kicky thing you do with your leg when you arrive at the boot of the car and need to open the tailgate but cannot because your hands are full of shopping or you are carrying something you cannot put down, like a small sleeping child.
And, besides, with a kicky toddler directly behind us, we had other, more pressing things to endure.
Add all of that to a kicky, light-as-a-feather spray-on delivery system, and you've got a winner on your hands -- not to mention any other area of skin.
A collection of kicky, '70s-style graphic print pillows from notNeutral pack pop punch.
The plays are Peter Shaffer's metatheatrical farce Black Comedy (July 3-5) and David Ives's kicky anthology All in the Timing (July 31 and Aug.
Loose-fitting tunics with flares low over the hips and a bit of gauzy transparency here and there joined the series of fun, kicky mini-skirts.
One thing the owner and the farrier should realize is that the "skittish," "jumpy," "kicky," reactions are not personal attacks directed at them, rather natural responses to the given situation.
On opening night of San Francisco Ballet's new Cinderella, the dancer dove into the role of snarky stepsister Edwina with such kicky zest that you feared she would levitate on an updraft of sheer malice.