(kids, kidding, kidded)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
You can refer to a child as a kid. (INFORMAL)
They've got three kids...
All the kids in my class could read.
N-COUNT
2.
You can refer to your younger brother as your kid brother and your younger sister as your kid sister. (INFORMAL)
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
A kid is a young goat.
N-COUNT
4.
If you are kidding, you are saying something that is not really true, as a joke. (INFORMAL)
I'm not kidding, Frank. There's a cow out there, just standing around...
Are you sure you're not kidding me?
VERB: usu cont, V, V n
5.
If you kid someone, you tease them.
He liked to kid Ingrid a lot...
He used to kid me about being chubby.
VERB: V n, V n about -ing/n
6.
If people kid themselves, they allow themselves to believe something that is not true because they wish that it was true.
We're kidding ourselves, Bill. We're not winning, we're not even doing well...
I could kid myself that you did this for me, but it would be a lie.
= fool
VERB: V pron-refl, V pron-refl that
7.
You can say 'No kidding?' to show that you are interested or surprised when someone tells you something. (INFORMAL)
'We won.'-'No kidding?'
CONVENTION [feelings]
8.
You can say 'you've got to be kidding' or 'you must be kidding' to someone if they have said something that you think is ridiculous or completely untrue. (INFORMAL)
You've got to be kidding! I can't live here!...
PHRASE: V inflects [feelings]
9.
You can say 'who is she kidding?' or 'who is he trying to kid?' if you think it is obvious that someone is not being sincere and does not mean what they say. (INFORMAL)
She played the role of a meek, innocent, shy girl. I don't know who she was trying to kid...
PHRASE: V inflects