shitkicker
See also: shit kicker and shit-kicker
English
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edit- IPA(key): /ˈʃɪtˌkɪkə(ɹ)/
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Noun
editshitkicker (plural shitkickers)
- (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.
- (US, slang, vulgar, offensive) A poor, rural person, especially from the southern United States.
- Synonym: redneck
- (US, slang, vulgar) Something unusually unpleasant or difficult.
- I have a shitkicker of a headache.
- (slang, vulgar, offensive) A crude, violent and/or uncivilized person; a barbarian; a heathen.
Further reading
edit- “shitkicker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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