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"KICKS" is a plural of: kick. |
Date "KICKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Noun. Source: Nate the roadie. Definition: This is what this group of people call shoes. Context: This word can be used to replace the word shoe in any given situation. Social Source: Drug culture band roadies. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Noun. Source: Kick. Definition: To strike out or hit with the foot. Context: When you see someone with a nice/bad pair shoes. Social Source: Hackey-Sack Players on University of Oregon Campus. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Noun. Source: Unknown. Definition: Large baggy pants. Context: When addressing a person's clothing. Social Source: Ravers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
Slang in 1811 | KICKS. Breeches. A high kick; the top of the fashion. It is all the kick; it is the present mode. Tip us your kicks, we'll have them as well as your lour; pull off your breeches, for we must have them as well as your money. A kick; sixpence. Two and a kic. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: KICKS |
| English words defined with "KICKS": dribble, dribbling, dropkicker ♦ Estrapade ♦ Flingdust ♦ karate, kicker ♦ punter ♦ shooter ♦ Wincer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "KICKS": Administration ♦ chippy user, Commonwealth ♦ Horse ♦ Kick the Beam, kicksave ♦ log handler, LOG ROLLER ♦ More Kicks than Hapence ♦ QUEER KICKS ♦ RUM KICKS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "KICKS": Flingdust. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It kicks and turns and curls up in your belly, makes you wanna freaky-deaky, right? (Boogie Nights; writing credit: Paul Thomas Anderson.) You know, for the mommy-to-be who kicks some ass on occasion. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) In baggy ass overalls who gets his kicks from killing everyone and everything he comes across. (Halloween: Resurrection; writing credit: Debra Hill; John Carpenter) This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I'm feeling just great, guys, and I know I'm just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) I know that you cannot see in that bathroom because that is a shielded fire door, but if and when your power kicks in and you do look through my clothes, I will rip your head off and attach it to his butt! (Generation X; writing credit: Eric Blakeney) | |
Lyrics | Kicks for you ("Like a Rolling Stone"; performing artist: Bob Dylan) All the cats and chicks can get their kicks at the hop. ("At the Hop"; performing artist: Danny & The Juniors) Fatboy Slim, that guy kicks ass. (The Rockafeller Skank; performing artist: Fatboy Slim) Fresh new kicks and pants ("U Can't Touch This"; performing artist: M.C. Hammer) Kicks my heels but my Jordans wouldn't 'ize it (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Beyond Kicks (1972) The Fatal Kicks in Kung Fu (1971) Hero with the Invincible Kicks (1952) Mr. Doodle Kicks Off (1938) Ko-Ko Kicks (1927) | |
Song Titles | Kicks (performing artist: Paul Revere and The Raiders) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A dust storm kicks up on Mars. Credit: NASA. |  | Gasoline Alley. "Boy, do I hate top kicks!". Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They began to strike this door with the butts of their muskets, and with kicks, calling, shouting, begging, wringing their hands. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | When a man dies he kicks the dust. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You may be asked to set aside specific times to lie down on your back or side and count the number of times the baby moves or kicks. (references) | |
In 1988, it was discovered that the membranes of certain nerve cells contain protein receptors that bind THC. Once securely in place, THC kicks off a series of cellular reactions that ultimately lead to the high that users experience when they smoke marijuana. (references) | ||
Economic History | Norway | The top personal income tax marginal rate is 49.5 percent (although there is a "surcharge" on incomes higher than that), and kicks in at such a low level that two-thirds of Norwegian workers are subject to it. The value added tax, after certain changes in 2001, will be 24 percent on most goods and services, but only 10 percent on food items. (references) |
Human Rights | Italy | During the March Global Forum demonstrations, detainees alleged that they were forced to kneel on the floor of police stations for lengthy periods of time, and were subjected to random and deliberate beatings with truncheons, as well as slaps, kicks, punches, and other verbal insults frequently of an obscene, sexual nature. (references) |
Argentina | The judges' report was based in part on an 11-month investigation by the Buenos Aires provincial public defender, Mario Coriolano, who reported 602 cases of torture in jails and police stations in the province between March 2000 and June 2001. Most of these were punches and kicks to various parts of the body, baton blows, and threats (some with firearms). (references) | |
Political Economy | IRELAND | The higher rate kicks in at slightly below the median industrial wage (about 23,000 dollars). (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "KICKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 63.33% of the time. "KICKS" is used about 439 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 63.33% | 278 | 17,541 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 35.08% | 154 | 25,326 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.59% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 439 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "KICKS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Kicks | Last name | 170 | 51,055 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "KICKS": with kicks. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "KICKS": kicks-off. | |
Ending with "KICKS": free-kicks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
kicks.com nice | 303 |
cool kicks.com | 109 |
kicks.com platinum | 57 |
baller kicks.com | 20 |
kicks.com kool | 17 |
kicks.com uptown | 6 |
kicks.com nyce | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "KICKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | tritt (footprint, footstep, hack, kick, mating, pace, running board, stair, step, stride, tread, treadle, treads, walk), stößt (aus expells, buffets, bunts, hustles, impinges, pokes, punts). (various references) | ||||
Greek | κλοτσήδον (with kicks). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | heccből tesz vmit (to do sg for kicks). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 屁と火事はもとから'ぐ (it is often the originator of problems who kicks up a fuss or complains loudest). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | へとかじはもとからさわぐ (it is often the originator of problems who kicks up a fuss or complains loudest). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ickskay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "KICKS": kickshaw, kickshaws, kickstand, kickstands, kickstart, kickstarted, kickstarting, kickstarts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "KICKS": dropkicks, miskicks, outkicks, placekicks, sidekicks, topkicks. (additional references) | |
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"KICKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ickes, icks, kack, kacki, kackis, Kci, Kcsi, kiack, kices, kicky, Kilcash, Kilcast, kix, kock, Kricka, kuck, kwick, oicks, ukccs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "KICKS" (pronounced ki"ks) |
| 3 | -i" k s | bricks, chicks, clicks, cliques, Dicks, fix, flicks, Hicks, intermix, licks, mix, Nicks, Nix, picks, pix, pricks, ricks, six, slicks, sticks, ticks, tics, transfix, tricks, Wicks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-k-k-s" | |
-1 letter: kick, sick. | |
-2 letters: cis, ick, sic, ski. | |
-3 letters: is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-k-k-s" | |
+2 letters: kickers, kickups, miskick. | |
+3 letters: buckskin, kickiest, kickoffs, kickshaw, killicks, killocks, knickers, miskicks, outkicks, sacklike, sidekick, skipjack, topkicks. | |
+4 letters: buckskins, dropkicks, kickbacks, kickballs, kickshaws, kickstand, kickstart, miskicked, nicknacks, picklocks, pickwicks, rickracks, sidekicks, skipjacks, slickrock, sticklike, stickwork, ticktacks, ticktocks. | |
+5 letters: antiknocks, brickworks, jackknifes, jackknives, kickboards, kickboxers, kickstands, kickstarts, knackeries, knuckliest, miskicking, pickabacks, pickthanks, placekicks, skyjacking, slickrocks, stickworks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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