: providing a kick or thrill : exciting
also
: excitingly fashionable
Examples of kicky in a Sentence
needing one last kicky experience in my life, I decided to try bungee jumping
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Dance Mom is already looking more Hollywood during her interview — love those kicky cowboy boots — and gamely bantering with Deborah about being a grandmother now.
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 16 May 2025
Reuniting with go-to Hollywood screenwriter David Koepp, who wrote his kicky techno-thriller Kimi, the director tells a familiar haunted-house story but from the haunter’s perspective — literally, as the entire movie unfolds from a spectral first-person POV!
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Pickens matches the kicky mood in a top and skirt from Bottega Veneta; bottegaveneta.com.
—Vogue, 21 Feb. 2024
Strange New Worlds has received high marks for its production design, with its kicky riffs on 1960s aesthetics as well as its further development of characters that have been around for more than half a century.
—James Mercadante and Johnny Loftus, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2023
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 16 May 2025
Reuniting with go-to Hollywood screenwriter David Koepp, who wrote his kicky techno-thriller Kimi, the director tells a familiar haunted-house story but from the haunter’s perspective — literally, as the entire movie unfolds from a spectral first-person POV!
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Pickens matches the kicky mood in a top and skirt from Bottega Veneta; bottegaveneta.com.
—Vogue, 21 Feb. 2024
Strange New Worlds has received high marks for its production design, with its kicky riffs on 1960s aesthetics as well as its further development of characters that have been around for more than half a century.
—James Mercadante and Johnny Loftus, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2023
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“Kicky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kicky. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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