dropkick

See also: drop kick and drop-kick

English

Etymology

From drop +‎ kick.

Noun

dropkick (plural dropkicks)

1. (Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent or useless person.
2. (soccer) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
3. (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)

1. to score via a dropkick
2. 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