kick to sleep
v. phr.— «Kick to sleep: Inmates frequently claim that officers threaten to beat them, or “kick them to sleep,” if they don’t behave properly.» —“What the lingo means” by Adam C. Smith, Jo Becker St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Dec. 30, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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