Meaning

One who kicks..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who kicks.
2. (sports) One who takes kicks.
3. (nautical) The kicking strap.
4. (nautical, informal) An outboard motor.
5. (colloquial) An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant, serving as a punchline or clincher.
6. (finance) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
7. (poker) An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.
8. (journalism) Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.

Example Sentences

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.

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

Jill's hand was two pair, aces and sevens, with a king kicker.

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

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

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 […]

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Use kicker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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