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Kick Sauber C45
The Kick Sauber C45 is a Formula 1 car raced by Stake F1 Team KICK Sauber in 2025, the last Ferrari-powered Sauber before the team became Audi.
Kick scooter
A kick scooter, also called a push scooter, is a human-powered vehicle with a low deck on small wheels and a steering handlebar, propelled by pushing with one foot.
Kick Six
Kick Six: Chris Davis's 109-yard return of a missed Alabama field goal on the final play of the 2013 Iron Bowl, giving Auburn a 34-28 win, the SEC West title, and a BCS title game berth.
Kick the bucket
Kick the bucket is an informal English idiom meaning "to die", first recorded in Grose's 1785 slang dictionary and earlier in a 1775 magazine story. Its origin is disputed: the OED favors an archaic bucket meaning a butcher's beam, over the suicide-pail story.
Kick the Can Crew
Kick the Can Crew (キック・ザ・カン・クルー) is a Japanese hip-hop group formed in 1997 by MCs KREVA, LITTLE, and MCU, a central force in bringing hip hop into Japan's mainstream.
Kick-Ass – The New Girl
Kick-Ass: The New Girl is an Image Comics superhero crime series (2018–2021) by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., relaunching Kick-Ass with veteran Patience Lee as the new hero.
Kick-Ass (film)
Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero action-comedy directed by Matthew Vaughn, about a New York teenager who becomes a costumed vigilante despite having no powers or training.
Kick-Ass 2 (film)
Kick-Ass 2 is a 2013 American-British action comedy directed and written by Jeff Wadlow, the sequel to Kick-Ass, based on the Mark Millar and John S. Romita Jr. comic.
Kickapoo
The Kickapoo (Kiikaapoa, Kiikaapoi) are an Algonquian-speaking Native American people from the Great Lakes, now in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Coahuila, Mexico, divided into bands after ten US treaties and known for retaining traditional culture.
Kickapoo oral literature
Kickapoo oral literature is the body of narratives, trickster tales, songs, and ceremonial spoken texts of the Kickapoo, centered on the trickster Wiza'ka'a and recorded from 1890 onward.
KickassTorrents
KickassTorrents (KAT), founded 2008, was a BitTorrent index and search engine that became the world's most popular torrent directory before its July 2016 domain seizure and the arrest of alleged founder Artem Vaulin in Poland.
Kickback (bribery)
Kickback (bribery): a portion of contract or referral proceeds returned to the person who steered the transaction. Also called commercial bribery or fee splitting; defined under 41 U.S.C. § 8701, the healthcare Anti-Kickback Statute, and RESPA, often as a percentage of contract value in corrupt procurement.
Kickball
Kickball is a team game played like baseball or softball in which the batter kicks a large rubber ball and runs the bases, common in American elementary schools.
Kickboxer (1989 film)
Kickboxer (1989) is an American martial arts film directed by Mark DiSalle and David Worth, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Kurt Sloane, who trains in Muay Thai to avenge his paralyzed brother against Tong Po; $4.8 million budget, $15 million gross.
Kickboxer 2
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991) is Albert Pyun's martial arts sequel starring Sasha Mitchell as David Sloan, with Michel Qissi's Tong Po, a David S. Goyer script, a $1.2M US gross, and three direct sequels.
Kickboxer: Retaliation
Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018) is a martial arts action film, second in the Kickboxer reboot trilogy, directed by Dimitri Logothetis and starring Alain Moussi, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mike Tyson, and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson as Mongkut; released January 26, 2018 by Well Go USA, grossing $101,690 worldwide.
Kickboxer: Vengeance
Kickboxer: Vengeance is a 2016 American martial arts film, a remake of the 1989 Kickboxer, directed by John Stockwell, starring Alain Moussi as Kurt Sloane, Dave Bautista as Tong Po, and Jean-Claude Van Damme as Master Durand; released September 2016, grossing $287,779 worldwide.
Kickboxing
Kickboxing: stand-up combat sport combining boxing punches with karate-derived kicks, named in 1960s Japan by Osamu Noguchi (WKBA); American full-contact karate from 1970; WAKO (founded 1977, Berlin) governs the amateur sport in 130 nations; K-1 rules dominate professionally.
Kicked rotor
The kicked rotor is a physics model of a particle on a circular orbit that moves freely except for instantaneous kicks, a paradigm for studying classical and quantum chaos.
Kicker magnet
A kicker magnet is a fast-pulsed electromagnet installed on a particle accelerator's orbit that deflects the beam once, for injection, extraction, or abort onto a dump.
KickFlip (킥플립)
KickFlip (킥플립) is a seven-member JYP Entertainment boy group, Kyehoon, Amaru, Donghwa, Juwang, Minje, Keiju, Donghyeon, that debuted January 20, 2025 with 'Flip it, Kick it!' and 'Mama Said', selling 322,000 first-week copies.
Kickin' It
Kickin' It is an American comedy television series created by Jim O'Doherty about a struggling karate dojo, airing on Disney XD from 2011 to 2015.
Kicking & Screaming (2005 film)
Kicking & Screaming is a 2005 Universal family soccer comedy directed by Jesse Dylan, starring Will Ferrell as youth coach Phil Weston against father Buck (Robert Duvall), with Mike Ditka; grossed $52.8 million domestic.
Kicking Against the Pricks
Kicking Against the Pricks is the 1986 third album by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, an all-covers set on Mute Records recorded in Melbourne and Berlin, drawn from American folk, pop ballads, and rock.
Kicking and Screaming (1995 film)
Kicking and Screaming (1995) is Noah Baumbach's directorial debut, a 96-minute American indie comedy-drama about college graduates stalling after graduation, starring Josh Hamilton, Olivia d'Abo, and Chris Eigeman, financed for $1.3 million and released by Trimark.
Kicking Bear
Kicking Bear (Lakota: Mató Wanáȟtake) was an Oglala Lakota chief and medicine man who fought at Little Bighorn and led the Ghost Dance among the Sioux.
Kickstarter
Kickstarter, also known as Kickstarter.com, is an American crowdfunding platform launched in 2009 where backers fund creative projects, charged only if the funding goal is met.
Kicukiro District
Kicukiro District, a district of Kigali City, Rwanda, in the city's south-east; 491,731 residents (2022), 99.1% urban, density 2,944 per km², ten sectors including Masaka and Kanombe.
Kid 'n Play
Kid 'n Play: American hip-hop duo of Christopher "Kid" Reid and Christopher "Play" Martin, New York party rappers behind 2 Hype (1988), the House Party films, the Kick Step dance, and an NBC cartoon.
Kid (Pretenders song)
"Kid" is a 1979 Pretenders single written by Chrissie Hynde, on the 1980 debut album Pretenders; a 15/16-time song with a James Honeyman-Scott solo about a child whose mother is a prostitute.