shitkicker

See also: shit kicker and shit-kicker

English

Alternative forms

• shit kicker, shit-kicker

Etymology

shit +‎ kicker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪtˌkɪkə(ɹ)/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

Noun

shitkicker (plural shitkickers)

1. (US, slang, vulgar, usually in the plural) A workboot.

   I saw a tomboy wearing a pair of shitkickers.

   • 1971 March 18, Timothy Crouse, “Don Eyles: Extra! Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14!”, in Rolling Stone‎^[1]:

     A week after his feat, Don Eyles, wearing John Lennon glasses, a drooping mustache, long blond hair, black cords and shitkickers, walks down a long hall past phones labeled “Don’t Chatter Classified Matter” and red padlocked waste cans marked “Classified Waste Only” on his way to Draper’s million-dollar mockup of the Lunar Module.

2. (US, slang, vulgar, offensive) A poor, rural person, especially from the southern United States.

   Synonym: redneck

3. (US, slang, vulgar) Something unusually unpleasant or difficult.

   I have a shitkicker of a headache.

Further reading

• “shitkicker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.