Crossword clues for kicker
kicker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kicker \Kick"er\, n.
One who, or that which, kicks.
A fact, condition, or circumstance, sometimes concealed or not obvious, which reduces or eliminates the benefit of an apparently advantageous situation; a joker[5]; as, under the Soviet system, bread was good and cheap, but the kicker was that you waited in line for hours to get any, if it was available. [informal]
Hence: An unforeseen added expense or additional cost; as, the printer was cheap, but the special paper it needed was an expensive kicker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, agent noun from kick (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who kick. 2 (context sports English) One who takes kicks. 3 (context nautical English) The kicking strap. 4 (context nautical informal English) An outboard motor. 5 (context colloquial English) An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant. 6 (context finance English) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract. 7 (context poker English) An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand. 8 (context slang Southern US English) A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes(,) and/or philosophy. 9 (context journalism English) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
WordNet
n. a player who kicks the football
Wikipedia
A kicker, also called a side card, is a card in a poker hand that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same rank. For example, the hand Q-Q-10-5-2 is ranked as a pair of queens. The 10, 5, and 2 are kickers. This hand would defeat any hand with no pair, or with a lower-ranking pair, and lose to any higher-ranking hand. But the kickers can be used to break ties between other hands that also have a pair of queens. For example, Q-Q-K-3-2 would win (because its K kicker outranks the 10), but Q-Q-10-4-3 would lose (because its 4 is outranked by the 5).
Kicker may refer to:
Kicker is the main panel used in K Desktop Environment 3 and earlier. Together with KDesktop it forms the graphical shell. It can be customized by the user. By default, it has the K Menu, a Desktop Access button, a Home button, a Konqueror button, a Kontact button, and a Help button. It also has the Desktop Preview & Pager, the Taskbar, the System Tray, and the Clock.
It was a core part of the KDE desktop, and as such packaged as part of the kdebase module. Kicker was also ported from Qt3 to Qt4.
In KDE Software Compilation 4 Kicker, KDesktop, and SuperKaramba were replaced by KDE Plasma 4. The graphical shells KDE Plasma 4 and KDE Plasma 5 being widget engines of their own, SuperKaramba is no longer necessary and e.g. "Kicker" was re-implemented as such a desktop widget.
kicker Sportmagazin (commonly kicker) is Germany's leading sports magazine and is focused primarily on football. The magazine was founded in 1920 by German football pioneer Walther Bensemann and is published twice a week, usually Monday and Thursday, in Nuremberg. The Monday edition sells an average of 240,000 copies, while the Thursday edition has an average circulation of about 220,000 copies (2005 figures).
The magazine also publishes a yearbook, the kicker Almanach. It was first published from 1937 to 1942, and then continuously from 1959 to date.
Kicker is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Zella Day, released on June 2, 2015 by Pinetop Records and Hollywood Records. The album's first single, "Hypnotic", was released on February 27, 2015. It was followed by the album's second single, "High", which was released on May 1, 2015.
Usage examples of "kicker".
Finally, the wife, stung by words whose bitterness was embittered by their truth, cried aloud, taking the bystanders to witness, that the husband for whose sake, she said, she had endured patiently the falsehoods and accusations of yonder hussy, was nothing better than a beater, a striker, a kicker, a trampler, and a cuffer of his wife.
About sixtyeight yards upfield the kicker raised his right arm, gave a little hop, and began to move toward the ball.
He was wearing kicker boots, punker black leathers, and a lot of chains and badges and things.
Si was counting out the money when he said he bet she was a kicker father said she is kind as a kitten and dont bite or kick dont she Harry and i said she cant kick becaus she always holds up one leg in the stall, and old Si said whats that and i told him how she coodent kick becaus she held up one leg, and then Gimmy and Shep and Charlie Fifield and old Mister Page all laffed and hollered and stamped round and slaped their legs and said that is a good one, and old Si stoped counting his money and swore aufully and father looked auful mad for a minit and then he said she is wirth every cent of 50 dolars and asked Si what he wood give and Si said 15 dolars and they talked and talked and after a while he give father 25 dolars.
The kicker, however, was always in successfully tightening the sanctions to eliminate the smuggling, and here the smart sanctions got the answer wrong.
Smug satisfaction that the kicker of underdogs had himself bitten the dust.
A and B teams and was always against some foreign junior squad, to give the whole Fundraising affair a patriotic kicker.
Gately'd always found Demerol with a slight Talwin kicker such a smooth and orderly buzz.
Captain Prince Lysander, code name Kicker Six, who would be leading the scout element.
She followed him out into the stern well and watched while he started the kicker engine and set up the fishing rods.
It concluded with a kicker, an interview with Puerto Rican Senator Pauline Grandville: 'If the moon can simply ignore the feelings and desires of its terrestrial forebears, then that could call into question the entire matrix of Earth-Moon relations.
He could see a crowd of the local kickers clustered around a pool table.
The kickers were producing the hard stuff, the old stuff, liberty-headed dollars and Roosevelt dimes from the stamp-and-coin stores, while more cautious bettors slapped down antique paper dollars laminated in clear plastic.
The kickers, the table, Jackman’s itself, might not exist at all for him.
The kickers were just going ape, waving hats and stomping feet, acting like God’s own fools.