To object, to make a fuss.

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1799.  Dennis complained, and Grove kicked, but ’twas all to no purpose.—The Aurora, Phila., Feb. 13.

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1842.  [Members of Congress] kicked against receiving any more petitions.—Phila. Spirit of the Times, Jan. 1.

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1857.  I have to help support ’em, and live under their laws, and when they take a notion to swear away my character, I mustn’t kick.—J. G. Holland, ‘The Bay-Path,’ p. 69.

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1881.  See BACKBONE.

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1888.  The tariff is of no good to [the colored man]. But that is not what he kicks about.—N.Y. Herald, July 29 (Farmer).

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