English Dictionary

kicker

/ˈkɪkɚ/

noun

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.

The kicker scored a goal in the last minute of the game.

意味（1）

One who kicks.

意味（2）

(sports) One who takes kicks.

意味（3）

(American football) A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.

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(nautical) The kicking strap.

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(nautical, informal) An outboard motor.

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(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.

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(finance) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.

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(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.

意味（9）

(journalism) Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.

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

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(journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.

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(journalism) Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”)

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(radio, television) A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.

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

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(printing) A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.

In a printing machine, the combination of a kicker mechanism for displacing a newspaper […]

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(sports) A launch ramp.

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(prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".

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(informal) A relaxed party.

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(film, television) A backlight positioned at an angle.

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(pinball) A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.

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(performance art) A practitioner of the kicking performance art.

意味（20）

(US, slang, archaic) A complainer.