# kicker
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈkɪkɚ/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (UK) IPA: /ˈkɪkə/
* Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From kick +‎ -er.

#### Noun

kicker (plural kickers)
* One who kicks.
* (sports) One who takes kicks.
** (American football) A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
* (nautical) The kicking strap.
* (nautical, informal) An outboard motor.
* (colloquial) An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant, serving as a punchline or clincher.
    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.
** 2016, David Zelman, If I Can, You Can: Transformation Made Easy: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.
** 2017, “Gyalchester”, in More Life, performed by Drake:They want me gone, wait for the kicker / Bury me now and I only get bigger
* (finance) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
* (poker) 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.
* (journalism) Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
** 1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, Edward C. Nicholls, Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing, page 104:Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
* (journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
* (journalism) Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”)
* (radio, television) A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
** 1984, Media Report to Women, volume 12, page 46:[…] international news and politics, and heavy on the light stuff: local news, entertainment and merry little kickers […]
** 2013, Frank Barnas, Ted White, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 77: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 […]
* (printing) A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
** 1931, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 490:In a printing machine, the combination of a kicker mechanism for displacing a newspaper […]
* (sports) A launch ramp.
* (prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
    Synonym: motor
* (informal) A relaxed party.
    Synonym: kickback
* (film, television) A backlight positioned at an angle.
    Synonym: kick
* (pinball) A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
* (performance art) A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
* (US, slang, archaic) A complainer.

##### Derived terms

* ass-kicker
* can kicker
* daisy-kicker
* drop-kicker
* knee kicker
* mud-kicker
* mud kicker
* shitkicker
* tire kicker
* tyre kicker

##### Related terms

* kick
* kicked
* kicking

##### Translations
### 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.

#### Noun

kicker (plural kickers)
* (slang, Southern US) A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* rekick

## French
### Etymology 1

Compare Kicker.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ki.kœʁ/

#### Noun

kicker m (uncountable)
* (Belgium) table football, table soccer
    Synonyms: babyfoot, baby-foot, football de table

### Etymology 2

Borrowing from English kick (“to eject from an internet forum”)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ki.ke/

#### Verb

kicker
* (Internet) to kick; to eject (e.g. from a forum)

##### Derived terms

* rien à kicker

### Further reading

* “kicker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.