I'm willing to be the contrarian here.
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Kicking the ball is intentionally striking it with any part of the leg or foot.
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If the defender closed his legs and then the ball handler throw the ball against his legs, there is no kicking violation.
Further, I think it's a stretch to convert closing legs to intentionally striking the ball. So, without the defender moving his legs towards the ball, I don't see how you could describe that as striking the ball as opposed to the ball striking the player, which is not a kicking violation.
So, as described in the OP (legs closed then pass) you cannot possibly have a kicking violation. If, as is more likely, the order was actually the reverse of that, you probably didn't have a violation as the ball likely struck the leg rather than the leg striking the ball.