# drop kick
## English
### Alternative forms

* drop-kick

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

drop kick (plural drop kicks)
* (rugby, Australian rules football, American football, Canadian football) A kick made by dropping the ball on the ground and kicking it as it bounces up.
    Coordinate terms: drop punt, punt, field goal
* (Australia, slang, derogatory) An insignificant, contemptible or unfashionable person; a loser; used as a general insult.
** 1989, Morris Gleitzman, Two Weeks with the Queen, published 2010, page 28:‘I asked you to look after her for me, you drop-kick, not poison her.’
** 2002, Andy Griffiths, Just Disgusting!‎, page 102:‘Of course not, you drop kick,’ says Jen. “Ectoplasmic” means “like a ghost”. An ectoplasmic elephant would be invisible. So how could you see one anyway?’
** 2003, David Metzenthen, Boys of Blood & Bone, unnumbered page:‘ […] I′m its godfather. Darce, too, although he doesn′t know it yet, but he will when he gets back, the bludger. Geez, I hope the kid has your brown eyes, Lanse.’ Andy snorted a laugh. ‘Yeah, you drop-kick. Still, it′s probably gunna need all the friends it can get. So you′re on. Don′t be stingy with the presents.’
* (professional wrestling) A kick to the opponent made by leaping into the air and kicking with both feet before dropping to the ground.
** 1933 April 22 Jumping Joe Savoldi publicity article
    AND ON JOE'S DROP KICK THEY DROP - !
** 1933 May 16, 10,000 FANS SEE LEWIS WIN FIFTH WRESTLING TITLE‎:Joe was unable to return to the ring after missing a flying dropkick
** 1933 May 18, JOE SAVOLDI WINS MAT BOUT IN PHILADELPHIA‎:At no time did Savoldi attempt to employ the new attack that he calls "drop-kick." Once he offended the rules by using a flying tackle
** 1937 SAVOLDI'S DROP KICK
    Easily the most spectacular match-winner of this season is Joe Savoldi's drop kick. It will be easily understood from this picture why "when they are kicked they stay kicked." After a man is stunned by the kick it is an easy matter for Savoldi to body press a fall.
** 1949, WHAT'S HAPPENED TO OLD-TIME FAVOURITES?‎:Joe Savoldi, perhaps the originator of the dropkick, used to have a glorious crop of curls
** 2008 William Shatner Shatner On His Star Trek Signature Drop Kick 2 minutes 28 seconds Official William Shatner Page
    okay, I'll just go out and my dropkick: raise the right hand, right leg, and then I had this flash of reality. Newton's law is equal force meets equal force, whatever that thing is, everything is equal, and I realize in a dropkick when you go up in the air like that, any force you push is hardly any force at all. The reality is, a dropkick has no significance whatsoever, only on the stuntman, that reels back.

#### Translations
### Verb

drop kick (third-person singular simple present drop kicks, present participle drop kicking, simple past and past participle drop kicked)
* (transitive) To drop (a ball) and kick it after it hits the ground.
* (transitive, informal) To charge towards (an object or person) and jump to attack the target with both legs extended.
* (intransitive) To perform such a charge and jump.
** 2008 William Shatner Shatner On His Star Trek Signature Drop Kick 2 minutes 19 seconds Official William Shatner Page
    I thought, I'll dropkick... onto these guys, did I ever tell you that?