get one's kicks
verbEtymology From kick (“pleasure, thrill”). Compare get a kick out of.
- Well, if you ever plan to motor west / Jack, take my way, it's the highway that's the best / Get your kicks on Route 661946 April 22, Bobby Troup, “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66”, in New Juke Box Hits, performed by Chuck Berry, published March 1961, side 2, track 2:
- “Fine, fine, we lushing it up.” “That ain’t nowhere. Blast Little Eva with some pot. Let her get her kicks.” “I’ll see to it that she gets her kicks,” he said.1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, page 18: