dropkick

Etymology

drop + kick

noun

1. (Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent or useless person.
2. (soccer) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
3. (professional wrestling) a kick made to the opponent by leaping into the air and kicking with both feet before dropping to the ground.
   1933 April 22 Jumping Joe Savoldi publicity article AND ON JOE'S DROP KICK THEY DROP - !
   Joe was unable to return to the ring after missing a flying dropkick May 16 1933, 10,000 FANS SEE LEWIS WIN FIFTH WRESTLING TITLE
   At no time did Savoldi attempt to employ the new attack that he calls "drop-kick." Once he offended the rules by using a flying tackle May 18 1933, JOE SAVOLDI WINS MAT BOUT IN PHILADELPHIA
   1937 SAVOLDI'S DROP KICK Easily the most spectacular match-winner of this season is Joe Savoldi's drop kick. It will be easily understood from this picture why "when they are kicked they stay kicked." After a man is stunned by the kick it is an easy matter for Savoldi to body press a fall.
   Joe Savoldi, perhaps the originator of the dropkick, used to have a glorious crop of curls 1949, WHAT'S HAPPENED TO OLD-TIME FAVOURITES?
   2008 William Shatner Shatner On His Star Trek Signature Drop Kick 2 minutes 28 seconds Official William Shatner Page okay, I'll just go out and my dropkick: raise the right hand, right leg, and then I had this flash of reality. Newton's law is equal force meets equal force, whatever that thing is, everything is equal, and I realize in a dropkick when you go up in the air like that, any force you push is hardly any force at all. The reality is, a dropkick has no significance whatsoever, only on the stuntman, that reels back.

verb

1. to score via a dropkick
2. to make a dropkick
   2008 William Shatner Shatner On His Star Trek Signature Drop Kick 2 minutes 19 seconds Official William Shatner Page I thought, I'll dropkick... onto these guys, did I ever tell you that? I'll dropkick one of these guys