Meanings
plural superkicks
- astronomyAn ultrarelativistic interaction between two spinning black holes.
- governmentA high side thrust kick attack, which sees the wrestler use the sole of the foot to strike an opponent's head or chin.
- rarefantasyAn extremely strong kick, performed with proficiency, which differs from the common wrestling variation.
Lori Couto's SUPERKICK?
1980, Berkley Middle School Yearbook, Berkley Public Library, page 293 more examples
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 231At 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
present singular third person superkicks · participle present superkicking · participle past superkicked · past superkicked
- governmentto perform a superkick
Origin
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