kick

1. 1.

   the act of delivering a blow with the foot

   “he gave the ball a powerful kick”

   “the team's kicking was excellent”

   Synonymsbootkicking

   Broaderblow

   Narrowergoal-kickpuntplace kickdropkick
2. 2.

   the swift release of a store of affective force

   “they got a great bang out of it”

   “what a boot!”

   “he got a quick rush from injecting heroin”

   “he does it for kicks”

   Synonymsbangbootchargerushflushthrill

   Broaderexhilaration
3. 3.

   the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired

   Synonymsrecoil

   Broadermovement
4. 4.

   informal terms for objecting

   “I have a gripe about the service here”

   Synonymsgripebeefbitchsquawk

   Broaderobjection
5. 5.

   the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs)

   “a sidecar is a smooth drink but it has a powerful kick”

   Broaderstimulation
6. 6.

   a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics

   “the kick must be synchronized with the arm movements”

   “the swimmer's kicking left a wake behind him”

   Synonymskicking

   Broadermotion

   Narrowerswimming kick

Other forms of kick

plural

kicks·

past tense

kicked·

present participle

kicking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about kick

What does kick mean?

kick means "drive or propel with the foot". That is the primary sense; the word has 14 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kick?

kick has 1 syllable: kick. In IPA it is /ˈkɪk/.

What is another word for kick?

Close synonyms include kick back, recoil, give up, complain, plain. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kick a common word?

kick is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with kick?

1 word rhymes with kick. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.