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kick out the jams en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To behave in a raucous, wild, passionate manner free from restraint; to let loose.
    • After that, we kick out the jams and explore some of the more interesting things you can do with a webcam. 2006, Tom Green, Jordan L Chilcott, Foundation Flash 8 Video, page 240:
    • Bella was in her mid-thirties, had long prematurely gray hair and the face of a serene earth mother, but she could kick out the jams and lay down some howling firepower with her cherry-red 1975 Gretsch Streamliner. 2013, Robert McCammon, The Five, page 219:
    • Then the unthinkable might be actual, the unprecedented possible. You could safely kick out the jams, dissolve the old hesitations, break with adults, be done with compromises, get on with it. 1998, John Downton Hazlett, My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics, page 192:
    • That Friday, Ken retired, signifying the start of a new era without any Bogers involved in the company's operations. It was a good time to acknowlege^([sic]) progress, take stock, paint a vision, back-pat, then feast, drink, and kick out the jams. 2014, Barry Werth, The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma, page 321:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
kicked out the jams Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
kicked out the jams Tense=Past lexicographic
kicks out the jams Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
kicking out the jams Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

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