to incarcerate or restrain temporarily
Police officers illegally kettled peaceful climate activists at the G20 protests in 2009 to stop their gathering being "hijacked" by violent protesters from another demonstration, the high court has heard. --Guardian 23 March 2011
by garda March 23, 2011
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
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
by sopifhboirbj December 10, 2007
by kettle spotter May 23, 2010
'Did you bang her last night then?'
'Yeahh...Her kettle was getting all steamy, if you know what I mean'
'Yeahh...Her kettle was getting all steamy, if you know what I mean'
by Helrivkit April 21, 2009
by LondonSlangMonger August 04, 2009