Meaning

21 senses
  1. One who kicks.

    a player who kicks the football

  2. One who takes kicks.

    Kicker

  3. One who takes kicks.

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

  4. The kicking strap.

  5. (informal)An outboard motor.

  6. (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.

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  7. An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.

  8. 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.

  9. Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.

    Dachzeile

  10. The last one or two paragraphs of a story.

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

  12. A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Yanni's goat is a kicker.

  2. Here's the kicker.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
colloquial: unexpected situation or detail:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
sports: one who takes kicks:
journalism: Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story:

Origin

From kick + -er. The southern-U.S. sense referring to a person derives from shitkicker, r

From kick + -er.

The southern-U.S. sense referring to a person derives from shitkicker, referring to a cowboy with boots used to kick away cow manure.

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