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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“He gets a big kick out of anything like this. If he were down on the ground, he’d turn a few somersaults for us.”
From Literature
He made a poor start, throwing an interception and kicking out on the full.
From Barron's
He was stripped of his royal titles last year, and in recent weeks was kicked out of his mansion on the grounds of Windsor Castle outside London.
When the affable, athletic Duvall was nearly kicked out of college for poor grades, administrators summoned his parents for an emergency meeting.
From Los Angeles Times
The biggest and most lucrative clash in world cricket was in doubt after Bangladesh refused to play their T20 World Cup matches in India and were kicked out, replaced by Scotland.
From Barron's
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