slang. [Possibly a transferred use of prec.] a. intr. To make a demand or request for money, work, etc. b. trans. To appeal to, dun (a person) for something; to obtain (something) by asking.
1792. Galloway, Poems, 31 (E. D. D.). I kik’d a saxpence frae my master.
1829. Sporting Mag., XXIII. 293. They do not like two coachmen kicking in fifty miles.
1858. A. Mayhew, Paved with Gold, 254 (Farmer). Ned Purchase suggested that they might as well try and kick him for some coppers.
Mod. Sc. (tailors’ slang) He cam into the shop yesterday to kick the cork [= master] for a job.
