kid
/ˈkɪd/ noun A1- A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult. · She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.
- A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area. · Only '90s kids will remember this toy.· He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid.
- One's son or daughter, regardless of age. · This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid.
- Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
- An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
- A young goat. · He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.
- Kidskin.
- The meat of a young goat.
Plural kids
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass.
Where _can_ I have dropped them, I wonder?” Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen—everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door, had vanished completely.
As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit’s little white kid gloves while she was talking.
It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, “Oh!
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