kid
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Is kid a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.Examples: "She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends."; "“So you’ve got the kid,” said Sikes, when they had all reached the room: closing the door as he spoke. ¶ “Yes, here he is,” replied Nancy. ¶ “Did he come quiet?” inquired Sikes. ¶ “Like a lamb,” rejoined Nancy."; "I said, “I’ll send the first sane soul I meet to keep you company.” As luck would have it, I never met one,—only kids, and a baker, who wouldn’t leave his cart, or take it with him either."Synonyms: bairn, brat, child, chit, crumb cruncher, crumb crusher, crumb grinder, crumb snatchercountableinformaluncountable
2. (informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.Examples: "Only '90s kids will remember this toy."; "He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid."Synonyms: bairn, brat, child, chit, crumb cruncher, crumb crusher, crumb grinder, crumb snatchercountableinformaluncountable
3. (informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.Examples: "This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid."Synonyms: bairn, brat, child, chit, crumb cruncher, crumb crusher, crumb grinder, crumb snatchercountableinformaluncountable
4. (informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.Examples: "Here's looking at you, kid."Synonyms: bairn, brat, child, chit, crumb cruncher, crumb crusher, crumb grinder, crumb snatchercountableinformaluncountable
5. (informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.Examples: "2007 June 3, Eben Moglen, speech, Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the end of proprietary culture, I remember as a kid lawyer working at IBM in the summer of 1983, when a large insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut, for the first time asked to buy 12000 IBM PCs in a single order."Synonyms: bairn, brat, child, chit, crumb cruncher, crumb crusher, crumb grinder, crumb snatchercolloquialcountableinformaluncountable
6. A young goat.Examples: "I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers."Synonyms: kid leatheruncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, colloquial) To dupe or deceive.Examples: "Are you kidding me?"; "I kid you not!"; ""They are all very suspicious about the wording. I am always thinking up new ways of kidding them.""colloquialtransitive
2. (transitive, colloquial) To dupe or deceive.Examples: "Stop kidding me! It's not funny."colloquialtransitive
3. (transitive, colloquial) To dupe or deceive.Examples: "You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar."colloquialreflexivetransitive
4. (transitive, colloquial) To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.Examples: "They were always kidding her for her stutter."colloquialtransitive
5. (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.Examples: "You're kidding!"; "You must be kidding!"; "I'm only kidding!"colloquialintransitive
6. (intransitive) Of a goat: to give birth.Examples: "That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years."; ""They can kid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets.""intransitive
name (English)
1. (chess) Initialism of King's Indian Defence.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
Definition source: Wiktionary