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Kick in   /kɪk ɪn/   Listen
Kick in

verb
1.
Enter a particular state.  Synonym: set in.  "After a few moments, the effects of the drug kicked in"
2.
Contribute to some cause.  Synonyms: chip in, contribute, give.
3.
Open violently.  Synonym: kick down.



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"Kick in" Quotes from Famous Books



... while he used to give me a rap in the eye, or a kick in the slats, or something like that, but on the whole ...
— Yollop • George Barr McCutcheon

... kicked it violently, but without result, except that a mob of faces looked out of the first-floor window and hooted, and a bucket of water was emptied over them. A crowd collected as if by magic, and the spectacle of two gentlemen in evening dress trying to kick in the door of a shilling dancing saloon afforded it ...
— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson

... stop-watch in his hand; and tall Andrews joined him, to enforce the rule in all its rigour. I was lifted on my feet before I had perfectly recovered my recollection; and was again knocked down, though with less injury. While down, I received a kick in the side; of which my partisans instantly ...
— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft

... whirled, sprang, and slashed, was a veritable puppy-scream of indignation. He slashed ankle and foot as he received the second kick in mid-air; and, although he slid clear down the slope of deck into the scuppers, he left on the black skin the red tracery of his puppy-needle teeth. Still screaming his indignation, he clawed his way back ...
— Jerry of the Islands • Jack London

... 'It's blithering irony to talk of us Leura squatters as representing capital. We're all playing a sort of battledore and shuttlecock game—tossed about between drought and plenty—boom and slump. A kick in the beam and one end is up and the other end down. There's Windeatt, who will be ruined if his wool-shed is destroyed and his shearing spoiled. No rain, and the banks would foreclose on most of us. Take myself. Two years ago the skies were ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed


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