"kicking" meaning in English

See kicking in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈkɪkɪŋ/ Audio: En-au-kicking.ogg
Rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|adjective}} kicking
  1. (slang) Terrific, great (of clothes) smart, fashionable. Tags: slang Synonyms (terrific): bitching
    Sense id: en-kicking-en-adj-LnQ9MQJX Disambiguation of 'terrific': 98 1 1
  2. (slang) Alive, active (especially in the phrase alive and kicking). Tags: slang Synonyms (alive): extant
    Sense id: en-kicking-en-adj-3sqjVp3y Disambiguation of 'alive': 1 96 3
  3. (slang, of a party or event) Actively ongoing and enjoyable. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-kicking-en-adj-gxRNcDl0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: peng, top-notch, excellent, living, vital, alive, kickin'

Noun

IPA: /ˈkɪkɪŋ/ Audio: En-au-kicking.ogg Forms: kickings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun}} kicking (plural kickings)
  1. The action of the verb to kick.
    Sense id: en-kicking-en-noun-~w2JjnY~
  2. A violent assault involving repeated kicks. Categories (topical): Violence
    Sense id: en-kicking-en-noun-ZIkE7T0Y Disambiguation of Violence: 8 10 4 1 22 17 27 11
  3. (slang) A great loss or defeat; licking. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Violence
    Sense id: en-kicking-en-noun-6O46Cn3t Disambiguation of Violence: 8 10 4 1 22 17 27 11
  4. (performance art) A performance art that is a mix of dance footwork, acrobatic maneuver, and martial arts kicks, drawn from a variety of disciplines. Used in stage dance choreography and staged fight choreography. Categories (topical): Violence
    Sense id: en-kicking-en-noun-N8A7Z3r0 Disambiguation of Violence: 8 10 4 1 22 17 27 11 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 26 5 0 16 3 41 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 23 3 1 17 3 43 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 23 2 1 18 2 44 7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: kickin' Derived forms: can-kicking

Verb

IPA: /ˈkɪkɪŋ/ Audio: En-au-kicking.ogg
Rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} kicking
  1. present participle and gerund of kick Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: kick Categories (topical): Violence Derived forms: alive and kicking, ass kicking, ass-kicking, asskicking, Kicking Horse Pass Related terms: kick, kicked, kicker
    Sense id: en-kicking-en-verb-DaCdfMmg Disambiguation of Violence: 8 10 4 1 22 17 27 11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: kickin'

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.