kicking boots

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kicking boots pl (plural only)

1. (chiefly rugby, idiomatic) Ability to kick well.
   • 1979, “Rugby Football”, in The Ampleforth Journal, volume 79, page 154:

     If these two were outstanding, the others were not far behind. Finlow, having his best game for the School, put Murphy in for the next try and it did not seem to matter that Mangeot had for once left his kicking boots behind[,] for Lintin, Finlow and H. Cooper were all but over before half-time.

   • 2009, Josh Lewsey, One Chance: My Life and Rugby, page 127:

     Helped by a quite remarkable individual run by Jason […] , Jonny found his kicking boots again, Wales succumbed 28—17 and we were through to the semis in Sydney on 16 November.

   • 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.