dropkick
Meaning
A stupid, contemptible or useless person.
Example
Don't listen to that dropkick, he doesn't know what he's on about.
Origin
From the football term 'drop kick'.
Variants
drop kick
Nearby words
- droobA dull, hopeless or depressing person. In early use, a coin or amount of next to no value.
- drop bearAn imaginary predatory koala said to drop from trees onto passers-by, used to tease tourists and newcomers.
- drop puntIn Australian rules football, a kick in which the ball is dropped and kicked before it hits the ground, so…
- drop your bundleTo lose your nerve; to go to pieces or give up.
- dropperA light vertical batten of wood or wire fixed to the wires of a fence between posts to keep the wires evenly…
- drought-breakerA heavy, soaking fall of rain that ends a drought.
- droverA person who moves livestock over long distances, especially along stock routes.
- drover's dogA nobody; anyone at all, as in 'a drover's dog could have won it'.