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kicking out the jams

kicking out the jams is the present participle and gerund of kick out the jams.

Meaning of kick out the jams

Verb

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

  1. To behave in a raucous, wild, passionate manner free from restraint; to let loose.
    • Then the unthinkable might be actual, the unprecedented possible. You could safely kick out the jams, dissolve the old hesitations, break with adults, be done with compromises, get on with it.1998, John Downton Hazlett, My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics, page 192

Questions about kicking out the jams

What is kicking out the jams the present participle and gerund of?
Kicking out the jams is the present participle and gerund of kick out the jams.

Words near kicking out the jams in the dictionary

  1. kicking off
  2. kicking on
  3. kicking one's feet up
  4. kicking one's heels
  5. kicking out
  6. kicking out the jams
  7. kicking over
  8. kicking rocks
  9. kicking shit
  10. kicking some tail
  11. kicking some tires

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