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kicker
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As a noun, kicker means one who kicks.
Meanings of kicker
20 meaningsnoun
One who kicks.
sportsOne who takes kicks.
american footballA placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
nauticalThe kicking strap.
nauticalinformalAn outboard motor.
colloquialAn 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.”
financeAn enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
pokerAn 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.”
journalismSmall text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
journalismThe last one or two paragraphs of a story.
radiotelevisionA lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
printingA device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
sportsA launch ramp.
prison slangThe fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
Older and rare meanings (1)
USslangarchaicA complainer.
Synonym of lead-in
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).