noun
- a person or thing that kicks.
- Informal.
- a disadvantageous point or circumstance, usually concealed or unnoticed: The tickets are free, but the kicker is that you have to wait in line for hours to get them.
- a surprising change or turn of events: The kicker was that their friends knew it before they did.
- something extra, as an additional cost or gain; an added expense or financial incentive.
- Draw Poker. a card, usually an ace or face card, held with a pair or three of a kind in the hope of drawing a matching card.
- (in concrete construction) a low plinth at the base of a column.
- kickers, Slang. shoes, especially leisure shoes.
- Nautical.
- a small, low-powered outboard motor.
- an auxiliary engine on a sailing vessel, river steamer, etc.
- Slang. the alcoholic liquor in a mixed drink.
- Also called eyebrow, highline, overline, teaser. Printing, Journalism. a short line of copy set in a distinctive type above a headline and intended to call attention to it.
- Metallurgy. a charge of high-carbon iron that produces a vigorous boil when charged into an open-hearth furnace containing slag and molten metal of lower carbon content.
- Also called kicker light. Photography. a light source coming from the back and side of a subject and producing a highlight.
noun
- a person or thing that kicks
- sport a player in a rugby or occasionally a soccer team whose task is to attempt to kick conversions, penalty goals, etc
- US and Canadian slang a hidden and disadvantageous factor, such as a clause in a contract
- informal any light outboard motor for propelling a boat
- poker the highest unpaired card in a hand, used to decide the outcome of an otherwise tied round
1570s, agent noun from kick (v.).