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mud-kicker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From mud + kicker.

Meanings

1. (slang) A racehorse.
   • Alexander, who would become Cook's closest associate, gave him a tidbit of trainer science about what he had to do to be able to run the same track with all those experienced mud-kickers: "if you can't sing loud enough just make sure they understand what you say." 2005, Arthur Kempton, Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music, →ISBN, page 82:
2. (slang) Streetwalker; a prostitute who looks for customers in public places, especially one who works for a pimp.
   • Lay off the broads and the high priced mud-kickers. 1974, James Vernon Hatch, Ted Shine, editors, Black Theater, U.S.A., page 446:
   • I drove through the Block to see what whore I could test my skills on, and I saw this black mud-kicker standing on the corner of Gay & Baltimore Streets. 1998, Emory Newkirk, Players of the Block: The World's Famous Block, That Is, →ISBN, page 16:
   • I'd guerilla^([sic]) my Watusi ass into a chrome-and-leather ho den and gattle-gun my pimp-dream shit into some mud-kicker's frosty car. 2013, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me, →ISBN, page 17:
3. (slang) An unskilled laborer; One who makes his living by outdoor manual labor.
   • They're army guys, mud-kickers, for God's sakes. 1998, Keith Douglass, Seal Team Seven 06, →ISBN:
   • The biggest thing is, the people are nice. They remind me of the mid-west, they’re mud-kickers, not farmers — mud-kickers. They understand hard work. I’m a mud-kicker. 2015, Steve Buffery, “especially-for-ex-athletes Buffalo is our kind of town -- especially for ex-athlete”, in Toronto Sun:
   • Men in three-piece suits sat next to guys wearing hunting-orange sweatshirts and mud-kicker boots, encapsulating the rural community Waxenfelter inhabited for more than a decade. 2014, Molly Harbarger, “Grady Waxenfelter's love for people shows as more than 700 people attend shooting victim's funeral”, in The Oregonian:
4. (slang) A workboot designed for outdoor work, especially one that can be worn on muddy ground.
   • And, yes, if you sell pharmaceuticals to farmers, you may show up in a sports coat or pants suit, but you also have a pair of mud-kickers in the trunk, all of which is part of the “dress code” for your market. 2008, John Ingrisano, The Back to Basics Book of Selling, →ISBN, page 24:
   • He was short, this guy, and wiry, in along, fitted wool coat and fashionable mud-kickers of the kind Clyde wore. 2011, Cara Diaconoff, I'll Be A Stranger to You, →ISBN, page 248:
   • They go well with my yoked cowgirl shirt and mud-kickers—now off to the mercantile to buy a pair of spurs! 2013, Brenda Schweder, Vintage Redux, →ISBN, page 54:

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