Usually means: Rebel against controlling rules, constraints.
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  1. kick over the traces: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. kick over the traces: Merriam-Webster
  3. kick over the traces: Collins English Dictionary
  4. kick over the traces: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. kick over the traces: Wiktionary
  6. kick over the traces: Dictionary.com
  7. Kick Over the Traces: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. Kick over the Traces: The Word Detective

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  1. kick over the traces: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (kick over the traces)

verb:  (UK, dated, informal) To rebel against authority; to defy orders or instructions.
verb:  (UK, dated, informal) To live overextravagantly; to come to grief by fast living.

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