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kid2, v. 1. Informal, tease, badinage, chaff, pull [s.o.'s] leg, Inf. josh, Inf. rib, Inf. fun, Sl: put [s.o.] on, Sl. jive; ridicule, make fun of, mock, mimic, make game of, sport, Inf. rag; banter, jest, joke, joke or kid around, be facetious, be frivolous or flippant; trifle with, toy with, play with, make sport of, make light of. 2. Informal, trick, hoax, play a practical joke on; fool, befool, dupe, gull, take in, bamboozle, Inf. put [s.t.] over on; humbug, deceive, delude, cozen, cheat, swindle, Inf. flimflam, Inf. flam; impose upon, abuse, misuse, maltreat, use, take advantage of. kiddish, adj. Informal, youthful, young, young at heart, girlish, boyish, kidlike, childlike, Rare, childly; juvenile, juvenescent, adolescent, puerile, jejune; childish, babyish, infantile, infantine, immature. kidnap, v. 1. (usu. of persons) abduct, rape, capture, seize, steal, Sl. snatch, hold as hostage, hold for ransom; make off with, lay hold of, lay hands on, carry off, bear away, take away, snatch, pluck; pet-nap, dognap; (usu. in reference to military service) impress, press, conscript, Naut. shanghai, crimp.
2. commandeer, take over by force, hijack, skyjack, pirate; expropriate, appropriate, misappropriate. kidnapper, n. abductor, rapist, thief, robber, crook; petnapper, dognapper; deerjacker; skyjacker, hijacker, sky or air pirate. kidnapping, n. 1. abduction, capture, rape, seizure, robbery, theft; man-stealing, child-stealing; pet-napping, dognapping; impressment, conscription.
2. commandeering, hijacking, air or sky piracy, skyjacking; expropriation, arrogation, misappropriation. kidney, n. 1. urinary organ, (usu. pi.) Archaic. reins.
2. disposition, nature, humor, spirit, temperament, temper, grain, mood; outlook, mind-set, frame of mind; character, make-up, inner man, qualities, constitution.
3. kind, sort, type, brand, name, variety; make, cast, cut, mold, form, style, manner; grain, tone, color; species, genus, breed, brood, genre. kill, v. 1. slay, murder, assassinate, poison, do to death, liquidate, erase, blot or wipe out, put an end to, get rid of, put away, put out of the way, silence, carry off, remove, dispatch, finish, finish off, do for, fix, settle, lay out, lay low, Inf. put the kibosh on, Inf. nip in the bud; All Sl. off, hit, zap, waste, croak, eighty-six, take off, rub out, bump off, snuff out, knock off, polish off, give [s.o.] the works or the business; All Euph. send west, take for a ride, put [s.o.] out of his misery.
2. shoot, shoot down, riddle, Sl. blow [s.o.'s] brains out, Sl. pump [s.o.] full of lead; club, beat, batter, pound, hammer, blackjack, brain, Sl. knock or beat [s.o.'s] brains out; choke, strangle, throttle, garrotte, stifle, Sl. scrag; knife or stab, cut [s.o.'s] throat, jugulate, cut, cut down, bayonet, pierce, lancinate, run through, put to the sword, impale, spear, lance, Euph. let the daylight in; smother, suffocate, asphyxiate, burke.
3. execute, put to death, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate; hang, gibbet, lynch, Sl. string up, Sl. stretch; stone, lapidate; burn at the stake; electrocute; drown.
4. slaughter, butcher, cut to pieces, ax, hew, hack, hack to pieces, chop, chop to pieces, dismember, draw and quarter, tear limb from limb, disembowel, mutilate, savage, maul, shed or spill blood; wade in blood, run amuck, go berserk, give no quarter, show no mercy.
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