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kick out

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kick someone out (of somewhere)
to tell someone to leave a place. They kicked us out of the gym because it was needed for a basketball game. When the principal caught Lisa smoking in the bathroom, she was kicked out.
Usage notes: usually someone is kicked out for doing something wrong, as in the second example
See also: kick

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Old Brooke stands with the ball under his arm motioning the School back; he will not kick out till they are all in goal, behind the posts.
They were quite willing to teach him, but all they could say about it was, "You sit down on the top of the water in this way, and then you kick out like that.
I'd kick out with those long legs and iron-shod hoofs.
 
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