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Kicker

//ˈkɪkɚ// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who kicks.
  2. 2
    A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy. Southern-US, slang
  3. 3
    a player who kicks the football wordnet
  4. 4
    One who takes kicks.
  5. 5
    One who takes kicks.; A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
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  1. 6
    The kicking strap.
  2. 7
    An outboard motor. informal
  3. 8
    An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant, serving as a punchline or clincher. colloquial

    "John wants to climb the wall, but the kicker is that it is thirty feet tall."

  4. 9
    An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
  5. 10
    An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.

    "Jill's hand was two pair, aces and sevens, with a king kicker."

  6. 11
    Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.

    "Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines."

  7. 12
    The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
  8. 13
    Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”).
  9. 14
    A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.

    "[…] international news and politics, and heavy on the light stuff: local news, entertainment and merry little kickers […]"

  10. 15
    A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.

    "In a printing machine, the combination of a kicker mechanism for displacing a newspaper […]"

  11. 16
    A launch ramp.
  12. 17
    The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine". slang
  13. 18
    A relaxed party. informal
  14. 19
    A backlight positioned at an angle.
  15. 20
    A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
  16. 21
    A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
  17. 22
    A complainer. US, archaic, slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

From kick + -er.

Etymology 2

The southern-U.S. sense referring to a person derives from shitkicker, referring to a cowboy with boots used to kick away cow manure.

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