to kick it
41
9.8
- phrasal verb
- /kɪk ɪt/
- Slang
:
pasar el rato
- We're going to be kicking it for a while.
- kick it with friends
- let's kick it
- want to kick it
I'm talking to her like bitch, me and Chastity are fucking kicking it like besties, bitch.
- I'm talking to her like bitch, me and Chastity are fucking kicking it like besties, bitch.
- I have a hard time kicking it, kicking it back with the boys.
- Brandon, Jay and today we're kicking it old school.
- But well, listen, I hope you do come back here and just kick it with me some night.
- TI one time though, I remember we're kicking it.
- So it was so nice to just like hang out with her and fucking just kick it.
- And her response was, well, you know, we can hang out and kick it some time and, you know, maybe I'll think about helping you.
- Welcome today we have got the top of the week where we just hang out and kick it and act like, you know, it's all good even though it's not.
- Anyways, we start kicking it and we got physically involved very early in in our situation.
- I don't know why Sonia's giggling, but I'm just having a good time right now, kicking it in my crib.
- Hoping that maybe this can get to a point where eventually she'll just be OK with we're cool we can kick it.
Examples
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I got a chance to kick it with him.
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Yo, let's kick it.
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But well, listen, I hope you do come back here and just kick it with me some night.
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You wanna get outside and kick it around a bit?
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Go out and kick it.
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We can still kick it.
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We're happy just kicking it.
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Let's just... let's just kick it like bros.
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He seems like a cool person to kick it with.
Academic text (2004) -
My friends and I love to kick it at the park on weekends.
Antonyms
How Relaxed
Surface Forms
Morphology
kicks + it
The informal sense 'to hang out; relax' is slangy and cannot be derived from the literal meanings of 'kick' (to strike) and the pronoun 'it'. Any link to slang like 'get one's kicks' (pleasure) is indirect and not predictable for an average B1 learner, so the expression is idiomatic and opaque.
Etymology
Kick it may come from the simple image of the verb kick, as when you push off your shoes and put your feet up to relax. So, kick it came to mean 'hang out' or 'relax' with friends.