"kickable" meaning in English

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          "text": "The home side were showing adventure, running from deep in their own half and booting a kickable penalty to touch.",
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          "ref": "1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC, pages 24–25:",
          "text": "I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, […] fitter to be kickt, if ſhee vvere of a kickable ſubſtance, than either honoured or humoured.",
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          "ref": "1842, Alexander Campbell, “Kickable People”, in Sketches of Life and Character, page 10:",
          "text": "Kickable people are of various descriptions. Amongst these are your kickable subjects prima facie;—those whose provocatives are visible and external, whose incentives to you to kick them lie chiefly in manner and bearing.",
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          "ref": "1950 October 24, John W. Wood, “The World's favorite Sport”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 94, number 4, Hearst Magazines, →ISSN, page 137:",
          "text": "All sorts of kickable objects were used from ancient times until today's inflated ball, with a leather casing between 27 and 28 inches in circumference, was adopted.",
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          "ref": "1997, “By The Seat Of His Pants”, in Ski, volume 61, number 7, →ISSN, page 22:",
          "text": "The weekend inventor has five U.S. patents and three more pending for inspirations such as a kickable Frisbee, a clothes-ironing mitt and a leak-proof shower curtain.",
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        "Capable or deserving of being kicked."
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          "ref": "1842, Alexander Campbell, “Kickable People”, in Sketches of Life and Character, page 11:",
          "text": "Insolence of office is pre-eminently kickable. Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive hauteur by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick him rising strong within him? […] Petty tyranny is also eminently kickable.",
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          "ref": "1860, Augustus Mayhew, “The Finest Girl in Bloomsbury. A Tale of Ambitious Love. [serial novel, Chapter IX: Mrs. Ickle's Triumph]”, in The Welcome Guest, London: Houlston and Wright, page 464:",
          "text": "The first serious outbreak and renewal of hostilites ^([sic]) occurred when Dolly—who was now out of the doctor's hands—one morning sent his footman off at a moment's notice, for gross impertinence of the severest kickable kind.",
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          "ref": "1923, Rachel Crothers, “Act III”, in Mary the Third[:] A Comedy in Prologue and Three Acts:",
          "text": "What if the very things you like in me now—you'd hate sometime. What if the things I think are strong and stunning in you now, I'd think were pig-headed and kickable after a while?",
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        "Incurring kicking."
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        "(describing a behaviour or trait) Incurring kicking."
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          "text": "I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, […] fitter to be kickt, if ſhee vvere of a kickable ſubſtance, than either honoured or humoured.",
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          "text": "All sorts of kickable objects were used from ancient times until today's inflated ball, with a leather casing between 27 and 28 inches in circumference, was adopted.",
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          "ref": "1997, “By The Seat Of His Pants”, in Ski, volume 61, number 7, →ISSN, page 22:",
          "text": "The weekend inventor has five U.S. patents and three more pending for inspirations such as a kickable Frisbee, a clothes-ironing mitt and a leak-proof shower curtain.",
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          "text": "The first serious outbreak and renewal of hostilites ^([sic]) occurred when Dolly—who was now out of the doctor's hands—one morning sent his footman off at a moment's notice, for gross impertinence of the severest kickable kind.",
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          "ref": "1923, Rachel Crothers, “Act III”, in Mary the Third[:] A Comedy in Prologue and Three Acts:",
          "text": "What if the very things you like in me now—you'd hate sometime. What if the things I think are strong and stunning in you now, I'd think were pig-headed and kickable after a while?",
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        "Incurring kicking."
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        "(describing a behaviour or trait) Incurring kicking."
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