Sekirov Dictionary

kid

/ˈkɪd/

noun 13
verb 6
forms 4
phrases 5

noun13

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(informal) a boy or girl, or a young man or woman
- She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.
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(informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.
- Only '90s kids will remember this toy.
- He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid.
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(informal) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
- Here's looking at you, kid. — 1942
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(informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
- This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid.
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A young goat.
- He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.
A young antelope.
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(informal) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
- I remember as a kid lawyer working at IBM in the summer of 1983, when a large insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut, for the first time asked to buy 12000 IBM PCs in a single order. — 2007
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Kidskin.
- I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers. — 1912
The meat of a young goat.
(old-fashioned) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
(dialect, UK) A seed pod, usually of a leguminous plant.
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A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
- peaceable, well-disposed chaps as ever eat duff (dough) out of a kid — 1830
(old-fashioned) Synonym of faggot (“bundle of heath and furze”).

verb6

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(informal) To deceive or dupe as a joke.
- Stop kidding me! It's not funny.
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(informal) To joke.
- You must be kidding!
- I'm only kidding!
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(informal) To dupe or deceive.
- Are you kidding me?
- I kid you not!
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[with oneself] (informal) To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations.
- You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar.
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(informal) To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.
- They were always kidding her for her stutter.
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Of a goat: to give birth.
- That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years.

forms

kidded · kidding · kids · kidren

Phrases with kid

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