"dropkick" meaning in English

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        "kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground."
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        "(soccer) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground."
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          "text": "1933 April 22 Jumping Joe Savoldi publicity article\nAND ON JOE'S DROP KICK THEY DROP - !"
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          "ref": "1933 May 16, 10,000 FANS SEE LEWIS WIN FIFTH WRESTLING TITLE",
          "text": "Joe was unable to return to the ring after missing a flying dropkick",
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          "ref": "1933 May 18, JOE SAVOLDI WINS MAT BOUT IN PHILADELPHIA",
          "text": "At no time did Savoldi attempt to employ the new attack that he calls \"drop-kick.\" Once he offended the rules by using a flying tackle",
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          "text": "1937 SAVOLDI'S DROP KICK\nEasily the most spectacular match-winner of this season is Joe Savoldi's drop kick. It will be easily understood from this picture why \"when they are kicked they stay kicked.\" After a man is stunned by the kick it is an easy matter for Savoldi to body press a fall."
        },
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          "ref": "1949, WHAT'S HAPPENED TO OLD-TIME FAVOURITES?",
          "text": "Joe Savoldi, perhaps the originator of the dropkick, used to have a glorious crop of curls",
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        },
        {
          "text": "2008 William Shatner Shatner On His Star Trek Signature Drop Kick 2 minutes 28 seconds Official William Shatner Page\nokay, I'll just go out and my dropkick: raise the right hand, right leg, and then I had this flash of reality. Newton's law is equal force meets equal force, whatever that thing is, everything is equal, and I realize in a dropkick when you go up in the air like that, any force you push is hardly any force at all. The reality is, a dropkick has no significance whatsoever, only on the stuntman, that reels back."
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        "(professional wrestling) a kick made to the opponent by leaping into the air and kicking with both feet before dropping to the ground."
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          "text": "2008 William Shatner Shatner On His Star Trek Signature Drop Kick 2 minutes 28 seconds Official William Shatner Page\nokay, I'll just go out and my dropkick: raise the right hand, right leg, and then I had this flash of reality. Newton's law is equal force meets equal force, whatever that thing is, everything is equal, and I realize in a dropkick when you go up in the air like that, any force you push is hardly any force at all. The reality is, a dropkick has no significance whatsoever, only on the stuntman, that reels back."
        }
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