kicking it

kicking it
adj
enjoying oneself, celebrating or relaxing. A vogue term which, like the adjective kicking, is derived from the earlier Amer-ican expression to kick the shit. The phrase was recorded in use among North London schoolboys in the 1990s.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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