hochkant
adverb C2- upright, on end, edgeways (usually said of things that are not normally positioned this way)
- forcefully, with force; construed with verbs such as rausfliegen, rausschmeißen · Als er anfing, mir mit dem Anwalt zu drohen, hab ich ihn hochkant rausgeschmissen. When he started threatening me with a lawyer, I kicked him out arse over tit.
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