superkick en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˈsuːpɚkɪk/
Etymology
From super- + kick.
Meanings
- An ultrarelativistic interaction between two spinning black holes.
- A high side thrust kick attack, which sees the wrestler use the sole of the foot to strike an opponent's head or chin.
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(rare) An extremely strong kick, performed with proficiency, which differs from the common wrestling variation.
Thirty minutes later this superkick landed me, when I came crashing back to earth, at the door of the Egyptian tomb.
1920, The Saturday Evening Post, Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, page 129:"Mere you-tickle-me-I-tickle you stuff. No Urge^([sic]) about that sort of thing; no Superkick;—well Starfire, if you know what I mean!"— she said it shyly, being young enough and Anglo-Saxon enough, to dread the language.
1933, Eleanor Mercein Kelly, Arabesque, Harper & Brothers, page 231:Lori Couto's SUPERKICK?
1980, Berkley Middle School Yearbook, Berkley Public Library, page 29:At the end of the season, in December, they have a competitive and hilarious “superkick,’ a contest measuring accuracy, distance, and style (“style meaning how mongrelly your kicks are”), but that’s generally the extent of formal ceremony, a fact Kelly savors.
2004, Brian Doyle, Spirited Men: Story, Soul & Substance, Cowley Publications, →ISBN, page 127:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| superkicks | Number=Plur | lexicographic |