"kick-down" meaning in English

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      "form": "kick-downs",
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        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1969, The Motor - Volume 135, page 73",
          "text": "In general upward changes are bumpy; downward changes, including kick-downs, are O.K.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Road Test - Volume 9, page 280",
          "text": "Add this up and you will stick to the freeways where even the automatic is fine. Not the most modern system around, it takes its time about kick-downs and shows.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Automotive Design Engineering",
          "text": "This is especially useful for release element slip control on upshifts and release element hold-speed control on kick-downs; this logic is still used for those functions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of kickdown"
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  "word": "kick-down"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kick-downs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "kick-down (plural kick-downs)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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          "word": "kickdown"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1969, The Motor - Volume 135, page 73",
          "text": "In general upward changes are bumpy; downward changes, including kick-downs, are O.K.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Road Test - Volume 9, page 280",
          "text": "Add this up and you will stick to the freeways where even the automatic is fine. Not the most modern system around, it takes its time about kick-downs and shows.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Automotive Design Engineering",
          "text": "This is especially useful for release element slip control on upshifts and release element hold-speed control on kick-downs; this logic is still used for those functions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of kickdown"
      ],
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