Definition of Kickdown

1. a way of changing gears in an automatic car [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kickdown

kickball
kickban
kickbanned
kickbanning
kickbans
kickboard
kickboards
kickbox
kickboxed
kickboxer
kickboxers
kickboxes
kickboxing
kickboxings
kickdown (current term)
kickdowns
kickdrum
kickdrums
kicked
kicked arse
kicked off
kicked the habit
kicked the tyres
kicker
kickers
kickflip
kickflips
kickier

Literary usage of Kickdown

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Prize Cases Determined in the High Court of Admiralty: Before the by Edward Stanley Roscoe, Great Britain High Court of Admiralty (1905)
"... navigating with a 1810 professed destination to Tonningen, was captured at the entrance Ju!y 3l' of the Texel, three or four miles west of kickdown. ..."

2. Journal of the United States Artillery by Artillery School (Fort Monroe, Va.), Coast Artillery Training Center (U.S.) (1914)
"One that has excited considerable comment, is what is commonly termed the "kickdown." In the elevating mechanism of all disappearing carriages there is ..."

3. Speed Management by OECD/ECMT Transport Research Centre (2006)
"... except in case of emergency by a kickdown function. Data were collected and analysed and the main results will be published at the end of 2006. ..."

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