A kick is a forceful hit made with the foot.

A kick is when you hit a ball or other object with your foot so that it moves through the air.

If something gives you a kick, it makes you feel very excited or very happy for a short period of time.

If you kick around ideas or suggestions, you discuss them informally.

In soccer or football, when the players kick off, they start a game by kicking the ball.

In football, when the players kick off, they resume a game by kicking the ball.

If an event, game, series, or discussion kicks off, or is kicked off, it begins.

If you kick off your shoes, you shake your feet so that your shoes come off.

To kick someone off an area of land means to force them to leave it.

Kick out means the same as kick.

To kick someone out of a place or an organization means to force them to leave it.

If you say that someone kicks you when you are down, you think they are behaving unfairly because they are attacking you when you are in a weak position.

If you say that someone is dragged kicking and screaming into a particular course of action, you are emphasizing that they are very unwilling to do what they are being made to do.

If you say that someone does something for kicks, you mean that they do it because they think it will be exciting.

If you describe an event as a kick in the teeth, you are emphasizing that it is very disappointing and upsetting.

If you kick someone or something, you hit them forcefully with your foot.

When you kick a ball or other object, you hit it with your foot so that it moves through the air.

If you kick or if you kick your legs, you move your legs with very quick, small, and forceful movements, once or repeatedly.

If you kick your legs, you lift your legs up very high one after the other, for example when you are dancing.

If you kick a habit, you stop doing something that is bad for you and that you find difficult to stop doing.