What does kick mean?
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What does kick mean? - The Free Dictionary
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kick - The Free Dictionary
(he gave the ball a powerful kick the team's kicking was excellent)
(they got a great bang out of it what a boot! he got a quick rush from injecting heroin he does it for kicks)
(The boy kicked the dog Kick the door down)
(I have a gripe about the service here)
(a sidecar is a smooth drink but it has a powerful kick)
(The gun kicked back into my shoulder)
(the kick must be synchronized with the arm movements the swimmer's kicking left a wake behind him)
(kick a habit give up alcohol)
(He kicked the extra point after touchdown)
(My mother complains all day She has a lot to kick about)
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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.