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kicka

“kicka” is a Swedish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to kick, to strike with the foot
  2. to kick (a user, from a discussion forum or game or the like)
  3. to can (to fire or terminate an employee)

Etymology

Borrowed from English kick, originally as football/soccer slang, probably from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”), from Proto-Germanic *kaik-, *kaikaz (“bent backwards”).

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