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kick rocks en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, qualifier:dismissal, slang) To leave or run away; to skedaddle; to waste one's own time (with some other meaningless task) rather than waste the speaker's time with something equally irritating or pointless. (often used imperatively and dismissively).
    • If I hide my true self, then I cheat myself out of inner happiness. In my opinion, everyone can kick rocks if they can't accept me for who I am. 2010 April, Ashley Rhodes, “Your Letters”, in Essence, volume 40, number 12:

Forms

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

Synonyms

get lost · go away · pound sand · beat it

Translations (8)

mk бркај работа (depart or run away, often used dismissively) · de die Biege machen (depart or run away, often used dismissively) · de abzischen (depart or run away, often used dismissively) · de verpissen (depart or run away, often used dismissively) · de Leine ziehen (depart or run away, often used dismissively) · de verduften (depart or run away, often used dismissively) · nl opzouten (depart or run away, often used dismissively) · de verziehen (depart or run away, often used dismissively)