mud-kicker

See also: mudkicker and mud kicker

English

Alternative forms

• mudkicker
• mud kicker

Etymology

mud +‎ kicker

Pronunciation

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Noun

mud-kicker (plural mud-kickers)

1. (slang) A racehorse.
   • 2005, Arthur Kempton, Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music, →ISBN, page 82:

     Alexander, who would become Cook's closest associate, gave him a tidbit of trainer science about what he had to do to be able to run the same track with all those experienced mud-kickers: "if you can't sing loud enough just make sure they understand what you say."

2. (slang) Streetwalker; a prostitute who looks for customers in public places, especially one who works for a pimp.
   • 1974, James Vernon Hatch, Ted Shine, Black theater, U.S.A, page 446:

     Lay off the broads and the high priced mud-kickers.

   • 1998, Emory Newkirk, Players of the Block: The World's Famous Block, That Is, →ISBN, page 16:

     I drove through the Block to see what whore I could test my skills on, and I saw this black mud-kicker standing on the corner of Gay & Baltimore Streets.

   • 2013, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me, →ISBN, page 17:

     I'd guerilla my Watusi ass into a chrome-and-leather ho den and gattle-gun my pimp-dream shit into some mud-kicker's frosty car.

3. (slang) An unskilled laborer; One who makes his living by outdoor manual labor.
   • 1998, Keith Douglass, Seal Team Seven 06, →ISBN:

     They're army guys, mud-kickers, for God's sakes.

   • 2014, Molly Harbarger, “Grady Waxenfelter's love for people shows as more than 700 people attend shooting victim's funeral”, in The Oregonian:

     Men in three-piece suits sat next to guys wearing hunting-orange sweatshirts and mud-kicker boots, encapsulating the rural community Waxenfelter inhabited for more than a decade.

   • 2015, Steve Buffery, “especially-for-ex-athletes Buffalo is our kind of town -- especially for ex-athlete”, in Toronto Sun:

     The biggest thing is, the people are nice. They remind me of the mid-west, they’re mud-kickers, not farmers — mud-kickers. They understand hard work. I’m a mud-kicker.

4. (slang) A workboot designed for outdoor work, especially one that can be worn on muddy ground.
   • 2008, John Ingrisano, The Back to Basics Book of Selling, →ISBN, page 24:

     And, yes, if you sell pharmaceuticals to farmers, you may show up in a sports coat or pants suit, but you also have a pair of mud-kickers in the trunk, all of which is part of the “dress code” for your market.

   • 2011, Cara Diaconoff, I'll Be A Stranger to You, →ISBN, page 248:

     He was short, this guy, and wiry, in along, fitted wool coat and fashionable mud-kickers of the kind Clyde wore.

   • 2013, Brenda Schweder, Vintage Redux, →ISBN, page 54:

     They go well with my yoked cowgirl shirt and mud-kickers—now off to the mercantile to buy a pair of spurs!