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drop kick (plural drop kicks)

1. (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

2. (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!‎^[1], 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.’

3. (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^[2]:

     Joe was unable to return to the ring after missing a flying dropkick

   • 1933 May 18, JOE SAVOLDI WINS MAT BOUT IN PHILADELPHIA‎^[3]:

     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?‎^[4]:

     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.

drop kick (third-person singular simple present drop kicks, present participle drop kicking, simple past and past participle drop kicked)

1. (transitive) To drop (a ball) and kick it after it hits the ground.
2. (transitive, informal) To charge towards (an object or person) and jump to attack the target with both legs extended.
3. (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?