kicker
See also: Kicker
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɪkɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkə(r)
Noun
kicker (plural kickers)
- One who kicks.
- (sports) One who takes kicks.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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".
Derived terms
- knee kicker
Translations
sports: one who takes kicks
nautical: kicking strap — see kicking strap
nautical, informal: outboard motor
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colloquial: unexpected situation or detail
Etymology 2
The southern-U.S. sense referring to a person derives from shit-kicker, 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
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ki.kœʁ/
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ki.ke/
Conjugation
Conjugation of kicker (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | kickant /ki.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | kické /ki.ke/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | kicker | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | kickant /ki.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | 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 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “kicker” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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