Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈkɪkɚ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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/ˈkɪkə/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Noun
One who kicks.
One who takes kicks.
One who takes kicks. A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
The kicking strap.
An outboard motor.
Usage- Informal
An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant, serving as a punchline or clincher.
Usage- Colloquial
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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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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
An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.
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Jill's hand was two pair, aces and sevens, with a king kicker.
Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
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Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”).
A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
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[…] international news and politics, and heavy on the light stuff: local news, entertainment and merry little kickers […]
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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 […]
A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
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In a printing machine, the combination of a kicker mechanism for displacing a newspaper […]
A launch ramp.
The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
Usage- Slang
- Synonyms
A relaxed party.
Usage- Informal
- Synonyms
A backlight positioned at an angle.
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A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
A complainer.
Usage- US usage
- Archaic
- Slang
Noun
A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.
Usage- Southern-US
- Slang
Noun
a player who kicks the football
- Broader terms