kick in the butt

1. 1.

   punishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind

   Broadercorporal punishment

Questions about kick in the butt

What does kick in the butt mean?

kick in the butt means "punishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind".

Is kick in the butt a common word?

kick in the butt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.