mud-kicker

plural mud-kickers · alternative mudkicker · alternative mud kicker

1. slangA 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. slangStreetwalker; 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

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   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. slangAn 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

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   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

   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

4. slangA workboot designed for outdoor work, especially one that can be worn on muddy ground.

   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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   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