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shitkicker

/ˈʃɪtˌkɪkə(ɹ)/

shitkicker noun: a workboot.

Noun

shitkicker (plural shitkickers)

  1. (US, plural-normally, slang, vulgar) A workboot.
    • I saw a tomboy wearing a pair of shitkickers.
    • 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...1971 March 18, Timothy Crouse, “Don Eyles: Extra! Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14!”, in Rolling Stone
  2. (US, offensive, slang, vulgar) A poor, rural person, especially from the southern United States.
    Synonyms:
    redneck
  3. (US, slang, vulgar) Something unusually unpleasant or difficult.
    • I have a shitkicker of a headache.
  4. (offensive, slang, vulgar) A crude, violent and/or uncivilized person; a barbarian; a heathen.

Synonyms of shitkicker

Forms of shitkicker

pluralshitkickers
alternative formshit kicker
alternative formshit-kicker

Origin of shitkicker

From shit + kicker.

Questions about shitkicker

What does shitkicker mean?
Shitkicker means a workboot.
What part of speech is shitkicker?
Shitkicker is a noun.
How do you pronounce shitkicker?
Shitkicker is pronounced /ˈʃɪtˌkɪkə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of shitkicker?
The plural of shitkicker is shitkickers.

Words near shitkicker in the dictionary

  1. shiting
  2. shitiot
  3. shitiots
  4. shitizen
  5. shitizens
  6. shitkicker
  7. shitkickers
  8. shitland
  9. Shitland Islands
  10. shitlands
  11. Shitler

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