Meaning

1 senses

  1. (idiomatic, slang, stative)To be impressive; to be decisively good or pleasant.

    I never thought I'd say it, but being the governor of California kicks butt!

Examples

9 sentences

  1. I'll kick your butt!

    ruЯ тебе сейчас пинка под зад дам! — marafon

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  2. Michael kicked some serious butt tonight.

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  3. I’m going to kick his butt.

    deDem werde ich in den Hintern treten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. Sami is gonna kick your butt.

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  5. The team had trained and prepared for weeks and was ready to kick butt on the football field.

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Forms

kicks butt, kicking butt, kicked butt, kicked butt
Base formkick butt · to kick butt
3rd person singularkicks butt
Present participlekicking butt
Past simplekicked butt
Past participlekicked butt

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theykick butt
he, she, itkicks butt

Past simpleLesson

all personskicked butt

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave kicked butt
he, she, ithas kicked butt

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill kick butt

Synonyms

2 synonyms
rockB2ruleB2

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
kiboshkickA1kickbackkickboxingkidA1
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