" kettle "

 [ "kettle" ]

1: to incarcerate or restrain temporarily

  * e.g.,  ... 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 

 [ "kettle" ]

1: To be stressed out

  * e.g.,  ... Dude dont worry about that exam 

 [ "kettle" ]

2: Originates from the household appliance creating steam that builds up pressure inside the kettle.

  * e.g.,  ... your getting a bit too kettle 

 [ "kettle" ]

1: 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.

  * e.g.,  ... 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. 

 [ "kettle" ]

1: Someone that can sing un-naturally high notes.

  * e.g.,  ... Jon: Hey did you here MIKA's new song? 

 [ "kettle" ]

1: A steam locomotive/steam train

  * e.g.,  ... Did you see those folks Trainspotting at the station? They were waiting to photograph a kettle 

 [ "kettle" ]

1: Vagina.

  * e.g.,  ... 'Did you bang her last night then?' 

 [ "Kettle" ]

1: Used in London, UK to refer to a wrist watch.

  * e.g.,  ... i moved to him for his kettle. 

 [ "Kettled" ]

1: When one is confused or, through some other reason, cannot think clearly.

  * e.g.,  ... "Me heads pyarr kettled after listening t' tha" 

 [ "Kettled" ]

2: Often used in conjunction with other scouse dialect to form phrases which may be confusing to outsiders

 [ "Kettled" ]

1: A term well known in South West England for best describing a young male and female having anal sex.

  * e.g.,  ... "Me and this boy had anal sex last night" 

 [ "kettling" ]

1: Oh for Christ Sake, does every word need to be a sexual inuendo? For that small audience even the most modest of social consciousness- Kettling is a tactic used by police to try to suppress peaceful demonstrations by corralling protesters and refusing to let them go.

  * e.g.,  ... At the 24 November student demonstration in London, police were kettling students, some as young as 14, keeping them in the cold until midnight. Shame the American media didn't have time to cover it....