kick in
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Upon hearing residents in the burning house, the passerby kicked in the front door and yelled to those inside."
- "You touch me again, I swear I’ll kick your teeth in."
- "You have to push the switch hard to get the heater to kick in."
- "I took my medication an hour ago, and it hasn't kicked in yet."
- "People expect women [when they give birth] to have this instinct that kicks in."
- "Once the wet kicks in up north, you can be stranded for months waiting for swollen rivers to subside to a crossable depth[.]"