kicker
See also: Kicker
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɪkɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɪkə/
- Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
kick + -er
Noun
kicker (plural kickers)
- 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.
- (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.
- 2016, David Zelman, If I Can, You Can: Transformation Made Easy
- 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.
- 2017, “Gyalchester”, in More Life, performed by Drake:
- They want me gone, wait for the kicker / Bury me now and I only get bigger
- (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.
- 1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, Edward C. Nicholls, Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing (page 104)
- Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
- 1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, Edward C. Nicholls, Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing (page 104)
- (journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
- (journalism) Synonym of 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".
- Synonym: motor
- (informal) A relaxed party.
- Synonym: kickback
- (film, television) A backlight positioned at an angle.
- Synonym: kick
- (pinball) A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
- (performance art) A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
- (US, slang, archaic) A complainer.
Derived terms
- knee kicker
- shitkicker
Related terms
- kick
- kicked
- kicking
Translations
one who kicks
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sports: one who takes kicks
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nautical: kicking strap — see kicking strap
nautical, informal: outboard motor
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colloquial: unexpected situation or detail
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finance: enticement for investors
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poker: unpaired card in a poker hand
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journalism: Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story
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journalism: Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”)
journalism: the last paragraph or two of a story
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Etymology 2
The southern-U.S. sense referring to a person derives from shitkicker, referring to a cowboy with boots used to kick away cow manure.
Noun
kicker (plural kickers)
- (slang, Southern US) A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.
Translations
slang: particular type of resident of Texas
Anagrams
- rekick
French
Etymology 1
Compare Kicker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ki.kœʁ/
Noun
kicker m (uncountable)
- (Belgium) table football, table soccer
- Synonyms: babyfoot, baby-foot, football de table
Etymology 2
Borrowing from English kick (“to eject from an internet forum”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ki.ke/
Verb
kicker
- (Internet) to kick; to eject (e.g. from a forum)
Conjugation
Conjugation of kicker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | kicker | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | kickant /ki.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | kické /ki.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | kicke /kik/ | kickes /kik/ | kicke /kik/ | kickons /ki.kɔ̃/ | kickez /ki.ke/ | kickent /kik/ |
| imperfect | kickais /ki.kɛ/ | kickais /ki.kɛ/ | kickait /ki.kɛ/ | kickions /ki.kjɔ̃/ | kickiez /ki.kje/ | kickaient /ki.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | kickai /ki.ke/ | kickas /ki.ka/ | kicka /ki.ka/ | kickâmes /ki.kam/ | kickâtes /ki.kat/ | kickèrent /ki.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | kickerai /ki.kʁe/ | kickeras /ki.kʁa/ | kickera /ki.kʁa/ | kickerons /ki.kʁɔ̃/ | kickerez /ki.kʁe/ | kickeront /ki.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | kickerais /ki.kʁɛ/ | kickerais /ki.kʁɛ/ | kickerait /ki.kʁɛ/ | kickerions /ki.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ | kickeriez /ki.kə.ʁje/ | kickeraient /ki.kʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | kicke /kik/ | kickes /kik/ | kicke /kik/ | kickions /ki.kjɔ̃/ | kickiez /ki.kje/ | kickent /kik/ |
| imperfect2 | kickasse /ki.kas/ | kickasses /ki.kas/ | kickât /ki.ka/ | kickassions /ki.ka.sjɔ̃/ | kickassiez /ki.ka.sje/ | kickassent /ki.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | kicke /kik/ | — | kickons /ki.kɔ̃/ | kickez /ki.ke/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- rien à kicker
Further reading
- “kicker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.