dropkick

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English

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Etymology

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From drop +‎ kick.

Noun

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dropkick (plural dropkicks)

  1. (Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent or useless person.
  2. (soccer) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
  3. (professional wrestling) a kick made to the opponent by leaping into the air and kicking with both feet before dropping to the ground.
    • 1933 April 22 Jumping Joe Savoldi publicity article
      AND ON JOE'S DROP KICK THEY DROP - !
    • 1933 May 16, 10,000 FANS SEE LEWIS WIN FIFTH WRESTLING TITLE[1]:
      Joe was unable to return to the ring after missing a flying dropkick
    • 1933 May 18, JOE SAVOLDI WINS MAT BOUT IN PHILADELPHIA[2]:
      At no time did Savoldi attempt to employ the new attack that he calls "drop-kick." Once he offended the rules by using a flying tackle
    • 1937 SAVOLDI'S DROP KICK
      Easily the most spectacular match-winner of this season is Joe Savoldi's drop kick. It will be easily understood from this picture why "when they are kicked they stay kicked." After a man is stunned by the kick it is an easy matter for Savoldi to body press a fall.
    • 1949, WHAT'S HAPPENED TO OLD-TIME FAVOURITES?[3]:
      Joe Savoldi, perhaps the originator of the dropkick, used to have a glorious crop of curls
    • 2008 William Shatner Shatner On His Star Trek Signature Drop Kick 2 minutes 28 seconds Official William Shatner Page
      okay, I'll just go out and my dropkick: raise the right hand, right leg, and then I had this flash of reality. Newton's law is equal force meets equal force, whatever that thing is, everything is equal, and I realize in a dropkick when you go up in the air like that, any force you push is hardly any force at all. The reality is, a dropkick has no significance whatsoever, only on the stuntman, that reels back.

Verb

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dropkick (third-person singular simple present dropkicks, present participle dropkicking, simple past and past participle dropkicked)

  1. to score via a dropkick
  2. to make a dropkick