dropkick

See also: drop kick, and drop-kick

English

Etymology

From drop +‎ kick.

Noun

dropkick (plural dropkicks)

(Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent or useless person.
(soccer) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
(professional wrestling) a kick made to the opponent 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^[1]:
  Joe was unable to return to the ring after missing a flying dropkick
- 1933 May 18, JOE SAVOLDI WINS MAT BOUT IN PHILADELPHIA‎^[2]:
  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?‎^[3]:
  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.

Verb

dropkick (third-person singular simple present dropkicks, present participle dropkicking, simple past and past participle dropkicked)

to score via a dropkick
to make a dropkick
- 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? I'll dropkick one of these guys