kicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪkɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɪkə/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: kickers
Etymology: From kick + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who kicks.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One who takes kicks.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One who takes kicks.
A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The kicking strap.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An outboard motor.
examples: text: John wants to climb the wall, but the kicker is that it is thirty feet tall.
text: Tuition is free; the kicker is that mandatory room and board costs twice as much as at other colleges.
text: 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.
ref: 2016, David Zelman, If I Can, You Can: Transformation Made Easy:
text: They want me gone, wait for the kicker / Bury me now and I only get bigger
ref: 2017, “Gyalchester”, in More Life, performed by Drake:
glosses: An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant, serving as a punchline or clincher.
topics: business
finance
glosses: An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
examples: text: Jill's hand was two pair, aces and sevens, with a king kicker.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.
examples: text: Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
ref: 1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, Edward C. Nicholls, Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing, page 104:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”).
synonyms: word: lead-in
extra: start of photo caption
examples: text: […] international news and politics, and heavy on the light stuff: local news, entertainment and merry little kickers […]
ref: 1984, Media Report to Women, volume 12, page 46:
text: 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 […]
ref: 2013, Frank Barnas, Ted White, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 77:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
examples: text: In a printing machine, the combination of a kicker mechanism for displacing a newspaper […]
ref: 1931, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 490:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A launch ramp.
synonyms: motor
glosses: The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
synonyms: kickback
glosses: A relaxed party.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: kick
glosses: A backlight positioned at an angle.
qualifier: pinball
glosses: A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
qualifier: performance art
glosses: A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
glosses: A complainer.
Derived terms: ass-kicker
ballkicker
buttkicker
can kicker
claykicker
daisy-kicker
drop-kicker
goalkicker
knee kicker
mud kicker
mud-kicker
shitkicker
tire kicker
tyre kicker
Related terms: kick
kicked
kicking