Kicker (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a person or thing that kicks.
  2. 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.
  3. something extra, as an additional cost or gain; an added expense or financial incentive.
  4. 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.
  5. (in concrete construction) a low plinth at the base of a column.
  6. shoes, especially leisure shoes.
  7. Nautical.
    • a small, low-powered outboard motor.
    • an auxiliary engine on a sailing vessel, river steamer, etc.
  8. the alcoholic liquor in a mixed drink.
  9. a short line of copy set in a distinctive type above a headline and intended to call attention to it.
  10. 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.
  11. a light source coming from the back and side of a subject and producing a highlight.
noun
  1. a person or thing that kicks
  2. a player in a rugby or occasionally a soccer team whose task is to attempt to kick conversions, penalty goals, etc
  3. a hidden and disadvantageous factor, such as a clause in a contract
  4. any light outboard motor for propelling a boat
  5. the highest unpaired card in a hand, used to decide the outcome of an otherwise tied round
Kicker (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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