kid
♦♦ kid /k'ɪd/ (kids kidding kidded)
1 [N-COUNT]
You can refer to a child as a kid. (INFORMAL)
They've got three kids...
All the kids in my class could read.
2 [ADJ] ADJ n
You can refer to your younger brother as your kid brother and your younger sister as your kid sister. (INFORMAL)
3 [N-COUNT]
A kid is a young goat.
4 [VERB] usu cont, V, V n
If you are kidding, you are saying something that is not really true, as a joke. (INFORMAL)
I'm not kidding, Frank. There's a cow out there, just standing around...
Are you sure you're not kidding me?
5 [VERB] V n, V n about -ing/n
If you kid someone, you tease them.
He liked to kid Ingrid a lot...
He used to kid me about being chubby.
6 [VERB] V pron-refl, V pron-refl that
If people kid themselves, they allow themselves to believe something that is not true because they wish that it was true.
We're kidding ourselves, Bill. We're not winning, we're not even doing well...
I could kid myself that you did this for me, but it would be a lie.
= fool
7 [CONVENTION]
You can say `No kidding?' to show that you are interested or surprised when someone tells you something. (INFORMAL)
`We won.'--`No kidding?'
8 [PHRASE] V inflects
You can say `you've got to be kidding' or `you must be kidding' to someone if they have said something that you think is ridiculous or completely untrue. (INFORMAL)
You've got to be kidding! I can't live here!...
9 [PHRASE] V inflects
You can say `who is she kidding?' or `who is he trying to kid?' if you think it is obvious that someone is not being sincere and does not mean what they say. (INFORMAL)
She played the role of a meek, innocent, shy girl. I don't know who she was trying to kid...kid gloves
[N-PLURAL] oft with N
If you treat someone or something with kid gloves, or if you give them the kid glove treatment, you are very careful in the way you deal with them.
In presidential campaigns, foreign policy is treated with kid gloves...school kid (school kids)
also schoolkid
[N-COUNT] usu pl
School kids are schoolchildren. (INFORMAL)
...young school kids in short pants.
1 [N-COUNT]
You can refer to a child as a kid. (INFORMAL)
They've got three kids...
All the kids in my class could read.
2 [ADJ] ADJ n
You can refer to your younger brother as your kid brother and your younger sister as your kid sister. (INFORMAL)
3 [N-COUNT]
A kid is a young goat.
4 [VERB] usu cont, V, V n
If you are kidding, you are saying something that is not really true, as a joke. (INFORMAL)
I'm not kidding, Frank. There's a cow out there, just standing around...
Are you sure you're not kidding me?
5 [VERB] V n, V n about -ing/n
If you kid someone, you tease them.
He liked to kid Ingrid a lot...
He used to kid me about being chubby.
6 [VERB] V pron-refl, V pron-refl that
If people kid themselves, they allow themselves to believe something that is not true because they wish that it was true.
We're kidding ourselves, Bill. We're not winning, we're not even doing well...
I could kid myself that you did this for me, but it would be a lie.
= fool
7 [CONVENTION]
You can say `No kidding?' to show that you are interested or surprised when someone tells you something. (INFORMAL)
`We won.'--`No kidding?'
8 [PHRASE] V inflects
You can say `you've got to be kidding' or `you must be kidding' to someone if they have said something that you think is ridiculous or completely untrue. (INFORMAL)
You've got to be kidding! I can't live here!...
9 [PHRASE] V inflects
You can say `who is she kidding?' or `who is he trying to kid?' if you think it is obvious that someone is not being sincere and does not mean what they say. (INFORMAL)
She played the role of a meek, innocent, shy girl. I don't know who she was trying to kid...kid gloves
[N-PLURAL] oft with N
If you treat someone or something with kid gloves, or if you give them the kid glove treatment, you are very careful in the way you deal with them.
In presidential campaigns, foreign policy is treated with kid gloves...school kid (school kids)
also schoolkid
[N-COUNT] usu pl
School kids are schoolchildren. (INFORMAL)
...young school kids in short pants.