kicker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: American-football
ball-games
broadcasting
business
card-games
film
finance
football
games
hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
media
nautical
poker
printing
publishing
radio
sports
television
transport
Etymology: From kick + -er.
Base: kick
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: kickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who kicks.
pos: noun
gloss: One who takes kicks.
pos: noun
gloss: One who takes kicks.
pos: noun
gloss: The kicking strap.
pos: noun
gloss: An outboard motor.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant, serving as a punchline or clincher.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: 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
gloss: An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
pos: noun
gloss: An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.
pos: noun
examples: Jill's hand was two pair, aces and sevens, with a king kicker.
gloss: Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
pos: noun
examples: Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
gloss: The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”).
pos: noun
gloss: A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
pos: noun
examples: […] 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 […]
gloss: A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
pos: noun
examples: In a printing machine, the combination of a kicker mechanism for displacing a newspaper […]
gloss: A launch ramp.
pos: noun
gloss: The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A relaxed party.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A backlight positioned at an angle.
pos: noun
gloss: A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
pos: noun
gloss: A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
pos: noun
gloss: A complainer.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
slang
Related words: kick
kicked
kicking
Derived words: ass-kicker
ballkicker
buttkicker
can kicker
claykicker
daisy-kicker
drop-kicker
goalkicker
knee kicker
mud kicker
mud-kicker
shitkicker
tire kicker
tyre kicker
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: xutador
lang: Czech
word: kopáč
lang: Georgian
word: დამრტყმელი
roman: damrṭq̇meli
lang: German
word: Kicker