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kick
noun- pleasure, fun US, 1928
- I got my kicks out of rubbing elbows with all those bigtime gamblers and muscle men, and the easy money didn’t run me away. — Milton Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 21, 1946
- After the drinks we all had a stick and got in a kick. — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 105, 1949
- Heah, go on over and plug that dame in the belly! Get real kicks! — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 13, 1952
- The kick was nothing she’d known in hemp, wine or Nembutal[.] — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 165, 1952
- We get some frantic kicks out of that wheel when we’re high. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 28, 1953
- It’s like the kick I used to get from bein’ a Jet. — West Side Story, 1957
- Dean was having his kicks; he put on a jazz record, grabbed Marylou, held her tight, and bounced against her with the beat of the music. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 125, 1957
- Yeah, I’ll play you a couple. Just for kicks. — The Hustler, 1961
- It gave him kicks to spend all day talking to priests, he said. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 68, 1961
- The Angels won’t admit it, but one of the main kicks they get on a run comes from spooking and jangling citizens along the way. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 117, 1966
- They’re not the kind of guys are gonna knock her around or decide they want to get their kicks by beating her up or something. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 59, 1966
- [I]t was Crane’s kick to blow those sailors he encountered along the squalid waterfronts of that vivid never-to-be-recaptured prewar world[.] — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 97, 1968
- He got a secret kick out of this little victory over his tormentors, — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 33, 1968
- a fad, a temporary preference or interest US, 1946
- I think he sometimes pushes the boat out a bit far when he’s off on this hating kick[.] — Derek Raymon (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 24, 1962
- Were you on this religious kick back home, or did you start to crack up here on the post? — M*A*S*H, 1970
- the sudden onset of the effects of a drug US, 1912
- They’re reefers. If you’re gonna smoke y’might’s well get a kick out it. — Max Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 3, 1947
- There is nothing quite like a kick on dexedrine. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 297, 1961
- a trouser pocket US, 1846
- Some nights I’d try my luck in the crap game, and wind up with a grand or more in my kick. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 44, 1946
- [H]er mind couldn’t lose sight of the fragile druggist lying where they’d left him, bleeding from the head, or of the bloodied nickel plated pistol Angie had in his kick. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 400, 1952
- I’m about to stuff my pony [£25] in my kick[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 39, 1962
- We had more than four hundred quid each in the kick[.] — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, 1965
- He reached in my kick and came out with my prop, then sent one of the salesgirls to get some water. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 54, 1973
- Pat arrived from Ireland with plenty of dough in his kick and, being a gambler, headed for Randwick to try his luck. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 118, 1975
- Even if the grass had a bundle he would plead poverty. Not that he ever had much in his kick. — The Sweeney, p. 50, 1976
- (of pre-decimalisation currency) sixpence, 6d UK, 1700
Rhyming slang that would be more convincing if the “kick” was plural; usually as “and a kick” in denominations such as “two and a kick” (two shillings and sixpence). - Kybosh, one and a kick[.] — Brian McDonald, Elephant Boys, p. 202, 2000
- money US
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- a bribe US
- All bellboys paid a daily "tax" or "kick" to the captains for the privilege of working. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 366, 1953
- anything that is shared with another US
- — Mark S. Fleisher, Beggars & Thieves, p. 290, 1995: “Glossary”
- the start of a horse race AUSTRALIA
- The horse missed the kick and then stumbled. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 190, 1988
▶ hit the kick
to pay AUSTRALIA- — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 36, 1972
- You go up the shop these detente days, and, pausing to catch your breath and hit the kick for a crumpled quid, you say without thinking to the downtrodden man who leans his nose on the weighing machine, “Canna Pal ana packeta Drum and papers, mate.” — Barry Dickins, What the Dickins, p. 54, 1985
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