Kicker

Yanni's goat is a kicker.

Here's the kicker.

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

Tuition is free; the kicker is that mandatory room and board costs twice as much as at other colleges.

If the coffee is currently being spilled, I can't unspill it. And here's the kicker. You can't change the future, because it hasn't happened yet.

They want me gone, wait for the kicker / Bury me now and I only get bigger

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

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

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

Instead, a reporter can carve out a niche as an entertainment/community reporter, thus concentrating their efforts on filing feature stories for the E block, where the kickers are slated. Kickers are feel-good pieces placed at the end of the newscast to leave viewers in a good mood […]