kicks

• IPA^(key): /kɪks/
• Rhymes: -ɪks

kicks

1. plural of kick

kicks pl (plural only)

1. (colloquial) Pleasures, thrills.
   • 1946, Bobby Troup (lyrics and music), “Route 66”, performed by Nat King Cole:

     Won't you get hip to this kindly tip / When you ride that California trip / Get your kicks on Route 66

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 4, in On the Road, Viking Press, OCLC 43419454, part 2:

     «Ah, it’s all right, it’s just kicks. We only live once. We’re having a good time.»

   • 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist‎, number 61, retrieved 2022-11-13, page 11:

     I have a theory […] that the Butterfield Band, who played in back of Dylan was really the Kingston Trio getting kicks […]

   • 1979, John O'Neill (lyrics and music), “Teenage Kicks”, performed by The Undertones:

     I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight / Get teenage kicks right through the night

   • 1996, Samuel Brittan, Capitalism with a human face, page 136:

     This is a common experience among drug addicts who need stronger and stronger doses to regain the old 'kicks'.

   • 2010, Theodore J. Kaczynski, David Skrbina, editor, Technological Slavery, page 385:

     They seek new kicks, new thrills, new adventures.

2. (colloquial) Shoes.
   • 1990, “U Can't Touch This”, in Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, performed by MC Hammer:

     Fresh new kicks, and pants / You gotta like that, now you know you wanna dance

3. (colloquial) Commissary, or the balance of a commissary account.

   I’ve seen your kicks, inmate: you’ve got forty cents to your name.

   He put a hundred bucks in your kicks each week.

• for kicks
• get one's kicks
• get a kick out of something
• kicks-and-giggles
• kickster

kicks

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kick