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Kick out   /kɪk aʊt/   Listen
Kick out

verb
1.
Force to leave or move out.  Synonyms: expel, throw out.
2.
Remove from a position or office.  Synonyms: boot out, drum out, expel, oust, throw out.





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"Kick out" Quotes from Famous Books



... extra burst of speed. All the Polaris will take. Now I've got to adjust the mixture of the fuel, otherwise she'll kick out on you and we'll have ...
— Danger in Deep Space • Carey Rockwell
... won't have any bloodshed if we can help it, though I do not mean to be taken. If a fellow should stop us and ask any questions, and try to arrest us, I will knock him down, and then we will make a bolt for it. There is no moon now, and it will be dark as pitch, so that if we kick out his lantern he would be unable to follow us. If he does, you let fly one of your blunted arrows at him. That will hit him quite hard enough, though it won't do him any serious damage. Of course, if there are several of them ...
— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty
... glad—heartily glad," exclaimed the smiling Admiral. "I hope he may get cash enough to buy back all the great Carne property, and kick out those rascally Jews and lawyers. But what makes Susie ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore
... said irritably. "We've accomplished something terrific, and I don't get a kick out of it! My head is full of business details that have to be attended to tomorrow. I ought to be uplifted. I ought to be gloating! I ought to be happy! But I'm worrying for fear that this infernal planet is going to ...
— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... mate. "When a fellow comes to his state, he ought to be turned out for the summer in a swamp paddock, with the leeches on his legs; then you ought to sell him to Cobb and Co., to get the last kick out of him. Or else ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy


Words linked to "Kick out" :   blackball, chuck out, bar, turn out, relegate, drum out, eject, ostracize, move, excommunicate, exile, turf out, ban, depose, displace, shun, throw out, ostracise, remove, expatriate, suspend, debar, deliver, extradite, expel, oust, force out, banish, deport, boot out, cast out, exclude


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