kid

A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.countableinformaluncountable

• She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.

A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.; A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.countableinformaluncountable

• Only '90s kids will remember this toy.
• He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid.

A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.; One's son or daughter, regardless of age.countableinformaluncountable

• This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid.

A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.; Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.countableinformaluncountable

• Here's looking at you, kid.

A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.; An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.colloquialcountableinformal

• 2007 June 3, Eben Moglen, speech, Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the end of proprietary culture, I remember as a kid lawyer working at IBM in the summer of 1983, when a large insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut, for the first ti

A young goat.countableuncountable

• He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.

A young goat.; Kidskin.uncountable

• I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers.

A young goat.; The meat of a young goat.uncountable

• So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board a mess of pottage and seethed kid, placed it upon the small table at which he had himself suppe

A young antelope.countableuncountable

A deception; an act of kidding somebody.countabledateduncountable

To dupe or deceive.colloquialparticiplepresent

• Are you kidding me?
• I kid you not!

To dupe or deceive.; To deceive or dupe as a joke.colloquialparticiplepresent

• Stop kidding me! It's not funny.

To dupe or deceive.; To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations.colloquialparticiplepresent

• You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar.

To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.colloquialparticiplepresent

• They were always kidding her for her stutter.

To joke.colloquialintransitiveparticiple

• You must be kidding!
• I'm only kidding!

Of a goat: to give birth.intransitive

• That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years.

A seed pod, usually of a leguminous plant.UKdialectal

Synonym of faggot (“bundle of heath and furze”).dated

• Now, for as much as this Fowle is a great deſtruction vnto the young Spawne or Frie of Fiſh, it ſhall bee good for the preſeruation thereof, to ſtake down into the bottomes of your Ponds good long Kids or Faggots of bruſh-woods, […]