Usually means: Resist or fight against authority.
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  1. kick against the pricks: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. kick against the pricks: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kick against the pricks: Collins English Dictionary
  4. kick against the pricks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. kick against the pricks: Wiktionary
  6. kick against the pricks: Dictionary.com

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  1. kick against the pricks: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (kick against the pricks)

verb:  To kick back (of an animal etc.) against being goaded.
verb:  (figuratively) To struggle against fate or authority.

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