Kick the Bucket.—To die.
Kick over the Traces.—To become unmanagable.
Kicksies.—Small clothes, from the appetency of their contents, to the exercise of kicking, and from being the kick—the fashion.—Take my advice, never resist the law, if a man claims your coat and vestcoat, let him have ’em, or you’ll lose your kicksies in trying the argument. And if a man kicks you rub the place, but don’t go to law, that’s my advice.
Kid.—A knowing boy or man, in a low or flash point of view—a thief.
Kiddy.—A thief of the lower order, who, when he is well breeched by a course of successful depredations, dresses in the extreme of vulgar gentility, and effects a knowingness in his air and conversation, which renders him in reality an object of ridicule:—
Poor Tom was once a Kiddy upon town,
A thorough varmint and a real swell.
Byron’s Don Juan.
Kiddy.—Tasty. Kiddy Artist, a tasty workman.
Kidney.—Men of the same thoughts and kind—kindred spirits, &c. Men of another Kidney.—The opposites.
Kinchin Cove.—A paltry thief who robs children—even of their bread and butter; or, a caged-bird of its lump sugar!
King of Bath.—Beau Nash, master of the ceremonies at that city for some fifteen years (1674-1761).