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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of drop-kick.

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Examples

  • Another deserving Peabody winner, CBS's The Good Wife, suffered a ratings blow this week when ABC drop-kicked the more mainstream Body of Proof into the same Tuesday time period.

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2011

  • England were drop-kicked out of the 1999 World Cup by South Africa, after the coach had issued the slightly rash invitation to judge him on results there.

    Sir Clive Woodward needs an ideas' filter to keep an eye on him | Eddie Butler 2011

  • Poor little WALL-E got his butt well and truly drop-kicked by the Kung Fu Panda.

    Annie Awards sfawardswatch 2009

  • Anything can happen, but I have a feeling Obama is going to get drop-kicked by the American people in two and a half years, and whomever replaces Stevens will be the last liberal appointed to the high court for sometime.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Constitutional Challenges to the Health Care Bill 2010

  • As Dennis Yu, chief executive of ad agency BlitzLocal and Internet spammer par excellence, said, "While people poked, bit, slapped, kissed and drop-kicked each other," Facebook game developers were making $10,000 a day passing on their user names, profile pictures and personal details to advertisers who were paying to serve "personalized" ads.

    Frenemies With Facebook Roger L. Kay 2010

  • He once spun racing's face man, Jeff Gordon, on pit road, drop-kicked a reporter's tape recorder and punched a photographer in public.

    Is Tony Stewart Nascar's Smartest Owner? 2010

  • Now the online/offline/phone-addicted public has their arms firmly folded (and will remain that way) because NBC drop-kicked the redhead and never checked with 24/7 tweeters to ask how would you feel about a switch.

    Richard Laermer: The PR Disaster Called NBC: Death of Corporate Speak 2010

  • Preamble: After a well-earned rest day, the 172 remaining riders (25 have fallen by the wayside, while Columbia's Mark Renshaw was drop-kicked towards it by the organisers) will travel the 174 kilometres from Pau to the finish line on top of Col du Tourmalet, the famous Pyrenean peak that stands 2,115m in it's socks.

    Tour de France 2010: Stage 17 - as it happened 2010

  • The question has to be asked how Arenas would truly respond to having the keys to the franchise -- the ones he drop-kicked last season -- handed over to a 19-year-old with star potential.

    Can John Wall and Gilbert Arenas work? Yes and maybe 2010

  • As Dennis Yu, chief executive of ad agency BlitzLocal and Internet spammer par excellence, said, "While people poked, bit, slapped, kissed and drop-kicked each other," Facebook game developers were making $10,000 a day passing on their user names, profile pictures and personal details to advertisers who were paying to serve "personalized" ads.

    Frenemies With Facebook 2010

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