shitkicker

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Etymology

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From shit +‎ kicker.

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Noun

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shitkicker (plural shitkickers)

  1. (US, slang, vulgar, usually in the plural) A workboot.
    I saw a tomboy wearing a pair of shitkickers.
    • 1971 March 18, Timothy Crouse, “Don Eyles: Extra! Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14!”, in Rolling Stone[1]:
      A week after his feat, Don Eyles, wearing John Lennon glasses, a drooping mustache, long blond hair, black cords and shitkickers, walks down a long hall past phones labeled “Don’t Chatter Classified Matter” and red padlocked waste cans marked “Classified Waste Only” on his way to Draper’s million-dollar mockup of the Lunar Module.
  2. (US, slang, vulgar, offensive) A poor, rural person, especially from the southern United States.
    Synonym: redneck
  3. (US, slang, vulgar) Something unusually unpleasant or difficult.
    I have a shitkicker of a headache.
  4. (slang, vulgar, offensive) A crude, violent and/or uncivilized person; a barbarian; a heathen.

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