To beat viciously. Originated from a scene in the 2007 movie Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street where Sweeney Todd (played by Johnny Depp) beats Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen) with a tea kettle.
by Trinket Stag August 02, 2008
To be stressed out
Originates from the household appliance creating steam that builds up pressure inside the kettle.
Originates from the household appliance creating steam that builds up pressure inside the kettle.
by Keats September 18, 2004
by Jelly_Boy March 25, 2004
Rural drudges, no class, slovenly, aversive to hard work, dim as a used up bulb. The Kettles were originally a family portrayed in American comic films in the 1940s and '50s (the first was "The Egg And I", portraying life on a chicken / egg farm, the last "The Kettles on Old Macdonald's Farm".) In the first movie, the slow-thinking and lazy Pa and Ma Kettle, with their fifteen children, win a tobacco slogan writing contest and get a modern house with electronic gadgetry they can not fathom. Today, the term is occasionally used to describe an uncouth dufus, a rude lout, someone who completely ignores politeness and common knowledge, someone who might act like an unschooled, ignorant rural clod.
These kettles boarded the plane and proceeded to place their infant in the overhead baggage bin, as he spit tobacco juice on the aisle carpet.
by JDiver May 15, 2010
Hey, James.. 'Kettle!' I uttered after hearing the girl go on and on complaining about the same things she had just done.
by Enlightened Serenity April 29, 2018
To suffer humiliation at the hands of another, often as a result of personal idiocy. A result of the TutRim Theory of Moderation™.
Arseface: Haha, I am so much cooler than you!
George: But your name is arseface.
Impartial Observer: Kettled!
George: But your name is arseface.
Impartial Observer: Kettled!
by Brick. May 03, 2005