dropkick

drop +‎ kick

dropkick (plural dropkicks)

1. (soccer) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
2. (pro wrestling) a kick made to the opponent by leaping into the air and dropping down on them.
   • 1933 April 22 Jumping Joe Savoldi publicity article

     AND ON JOE'S DROP KICK THEY DROP - !

   • 1933 May 16 10,000 FANS SEE LEWIS WIN FIFTH WRESTLING TITLE

     Joe was unable to return to the ring after missing a flying dropkick

   • 1933 May 18 JOE SAVOLDI WINS MAT BOUT IN PHILADELPHIA

     At no time did Savoldi attempt to employ the new attack that he calls "drop-kick." Once he offended the rules by using a flying tackle

   • 1937 SAVOLDI'S DROP KICK

     Easily the most spectacular match-winner of this season is Joe Savoldi's drop kick. It will be easily understood from this picture why "when they are kicked they stay kicked." After a man is stunned by the kick it is an easy matter for Savoldi to body press a fall.

   • 1949 WHAT'S HAPPENED TO OLD-TIME FAVOURITES?

     Joe Savoldi, perhaps the originator of the dropkick, used to have a glorious crop of curls

   • 2008 William Shatner Shatner On His Star Trek Signature Drop Kick 2 minutes 28 seconds Official William Shatner Page

     okay, I'll just go out and my dropkick: raise the right hand, right leg, and then I had this flash of reality. Newton's law is equal force meets equal force, whatever that thing is, everything is equal, and I realize in a dropkick when you go up in the air like that, any force you push is hardly any force at all. The reality is, a dropkick has no significance whatsoever, only on the stuntman, that reels back.

dropkick (third-person singular simple present dropkicks, present participle dropkicking, simple past and past participle dropkicked)

1. to score via a dropkick
2. to make a dropkick
   • 2008 William Shatner Shatner On His Star Trek Signature Drop Kick 2 minutes 19 seconds Official William Shatner Page

     I thought, I'll dropkick... onto these guys, did I ever tell you that? I'll dropkick one of these guys