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kicks

/kɪks/ noun A2
  1. Shoes. (colloquial)
  2. Commissary, or the balance of a commissary account. (colloquial) · I’ve seen your kicks, inmate: you’ve got forty cents to your name.· He put a hundred bucks in your kicks each week.
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The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 18 · B2
Well, we’ll have to sleep with Minnie May--and you can’t think how she kicks.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 152 · C1
The safety goggles are in the blue bins, and there are never enough, so order more before the school year kicks off.
A Letter to the New Teacher, p. 1 · C1
He kicks his legs in the pool.
Kai Learns to Swim, p. 1 · A1

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