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kick with (third-person singular simple present kicks with, present participle kicking with, simple past and past participle kicked with)

  1. (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To associate or hang out with (someone).
    • 1991, Léon Bing, Do or Die, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:
      Baby Sin is quick to answer. "Well, it don't get said to me, 'cause I been in it too long. I didn't really get put on my 'hood—I been in it six, seven years now. I started kickin' with my homies when I was about six years old."
    • 2001, Robert P[arris] Moses, Charles E. Cobb Jr., Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights, Boston, M.A.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 187:
      After school, most of the stuff went on with the boys. He might pick us up after practice and we might go to the mall. Just kicking with us. Hanging out.
    • 2017, Salome B[azier], You Used to Love Me:a Youngstown Hood Affair, North Olmsted, O.H.: Royal-Loyalty Publications, →ISBN, page 148:
      "So, Tootie, let me ask why are you still sitting up in here because it's obvious you got an issue with me? It's obvious you want my man, and you didn't come here out the kindness of your heart and to celebrate my child. Your ass been acting brand new towards me since I got with him. Hell, you don't even want to come and kick with us anymore long as I'm the fuck around, so I'm going to kindly ask you to exit the motherfucking building please," I said in the microphone to Tootie.
    • 2020 February 11, “Jack Harlow "WHATS POPPIN" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified”, in YouTube[1], posted by Genius, spoken by Jack Harlow:
      We say things like "on butt", that means like "wild out". I'll meet somebody from another city, a girl from another city, she starts kicking with me, she'll start saying "oh he's on butt".

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