kicked

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of kick.

   He kicked the door shut behind him.

   The protesters were kicked out of the building by security.

   Note

   One regular spelling does two jobs. As a simple past it stands alone in the clause (she kicked the ball). As a participle it follows have for the perfect (has kicked) or be for the passive. The passive suits the ejecting senses well: protesters were kicked out, a player was kicked from the server. The slang sense of overcoming a problem usually takes a direct object in the past or perfect: he finally kicked it.

2. 2
   adjectiveslang

   Of a pipe, burned out and empty, with nothing left to smoke but ash.

   By midnight the bowl was completely kicked, nothing but gray ash inside.

   He held the lighter to his pipe, puffed twice, and realized it was kicked.

   Similarcashed, spent, empty, finished

   Oppositepacked

   Note

   A word from the end of a smoke. It usually comes after be and the noun it describes: the bowl is kicked, or the pipe was kicked. It belongs to casual talk among smokers. In neutral writing, burned out or spent says the same thing without the slang. Despite the shared spelling, nothing about this use involves the past of the verb or any kick.

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