kicker
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈkɪkɚ/
kicker (plural kickers)
- One who kicks.
- (sports) One who takes kicks.
- (American football) or 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.
- 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.
- (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.
- (journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
- (journalism) Synonym of lead-in#English|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 […]
- 1984, Media Report to Women (volume 12, page 46)
- (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 […]
- 1931, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (page 490)
- (sports) A launch ramp.
- (prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
- Synonyms: motor
- A relaxed party
- Synonyms: kickback
- French: blème
- Russian: подвох
- German: Dachzeile
- Portuguese: pé da matéria
kicker (plural kickers)
- (slang, Southern US) A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes
and/or philosophy.
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