kid

Only '90s kids will remember this toy.

He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid.

(informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.

(informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.

He was their youngest kid.

(informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.

No, kid, you didn't do anything wrong; they did!

Here's looking at you, kid.

1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Rick (Humphrey Bogart):

(in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.

2007 June 3, Eben Moglen, speech, Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the end of proprietary culture,
I remember as a kid lawyer working at IBM in the summer of 1983, when a large insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut, for the first time asked to buy 12000 IBM PCs in a single order.

(colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.

She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.

“So you’ve got the kid,” said Sikes, when they had all reached the room: closing the door as he spoke. ¶ “Yes, here he is,” replied Nancy. ¶ “Did he come quiet?” inquired Sikes. ¶ “Like a lamb,” rejoined Nancy.

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Wherein Oliver Is Delivered over to Mr. William Sikes”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 12:

I said, “I’ll send the first sane soul I meet to keep you company.” As luck would have it, I never met one,—only kids, and a baker, who wouldn’t leave his cart, or take it with him either.

1897 March 13 – June 19, Richard Marsh [pseudonym; Richard Bernard Heldmann], “What the Tidings Were”, in The Beetle (The Adelphi Library; 4), London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], published 1920, →OCLC, book IV (In Pursuit), page 269:

"I should never dream of calling a kid like you a woman," said Digory loftily.

1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:

‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You’re not dull enough! […] What about the kid’s clothes? I don’t suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn’t you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’

1963, Margery Allingham, “The Beanspiller”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 186:

Our kids are why all of you are in this room today. Our kids are why you wake up wondering how you'll make a difference and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's lesson plan. Our kids are why you walk into that classroom every day even when you're not getting the support, or the pay, or the respect that you deserve - because you believe that every child should have a chance to succeed; that every child can be taught.

2007 July 5, Barack Obama, Remarks of Senator Barack Obama to the National Education Association Annual Meeting:

She not my lover like "Billie Jean", but the kid is mine

2018, “March 14”, in Scorpion, performed by Drake:

Network Rail is now the biggest kid in the playground, so if it doesn't want to play it doesn't have to, and the trees still fall down every time someone gives a low pressure system a name.

2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 44:

I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers.

1912, Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs: Letter 3:

So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board a mess of pottage and seethed kid, placed it upon the small table at which he had himself supped, and without waiting the Jew's thanks, went to the other side of the hall;—[…].

1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 85–86:

A young goat.
(uncountable) The meat of a young goat.

He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.

I went indeed intending to kill a Kid out of my own Flock, and bring him home and dreſs it. But as I was going, I ſaw a She Goat lying down in the Shade, and two young Kids ſitting by her, […]

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 249:

The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.

1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:

(dated) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.

peaceable, well-disposed chaps as ever eat duff (dough) out of a kid

1830, James Fenimore Cooper, The Water-witch, Or, The Skimmer of the Seas:

We fasted till night, when one of the boys came along with a couple of "kids" containing a thin, saffron-coloured fluid, with oily particles floating on top. The young wag told us this was soup: it turned out to be nothing more than oleaginous warm water.

1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “Reception from the Frenchman”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 109:

(nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.

en-noun

kid (countable and uncountable, plural kids)

is that what the kids are calling it these days

From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec.
Sense of child since 1590s as cant, since 1840s in informal use.


kid

Stop kidding me! It's not funny.

(transitive, colloquial) To dupe or deceive.

(transitive, colloquial) To deceive or dupe as a joke.

To dupe or deceive.
To deceive or dupe as a joke.

You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar.

(reflexive) To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations.

Are you kidding me?

I kid you not!

"They are all very suspicious about the wording. I am always thinking up new ways of kidding them."

1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 76:

They were always kidding her for her stutter.

(transitive, colloquial) To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.

You're kidding!

You must be kidding!

I'm only kidding!

No kidding!

That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years.

"They can kid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets."

2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 200:

(intransitive) Of a goat: to give birth.

en-verb

kid (third-person singular simple present kids, present participle kidding, simple past and past participle kidded)

kids (present singular third-person)
kidding (participle present)
kidded (participle past)
kidded (past)


kid

Now, for as much as this Fowle is a great deſtruction vnto the young Spawne or Frie of Fiſh, it ſhall bee good for the preſeruation thereof, to ſtake down into the bottomes of your Ponds good long Kids or Faggots of bruſh-woods, […]

1631, Gervase Markham, Countrey Contentments, 4th edition, page 99: