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Kicker   Listen
noun
Kicker  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, kicks.
2.
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)
3.
Hence: An unforeseen added expense or additional cost; as, the printer was cheap, but the special paper it needed was an expensive kicker.





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"Kicker" Quotes from Famous Books



... had now taken the tiller again, called to Jeremy after a while. "Here, lad," he said, when the boy reached the poop, "lend me a hand with this kicker." ...
— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader
... dropped in a flash. He made an expertly short job of the coolie kicker now the opening had come. Ramming a right fist like a jib-sheet-block hard into Leyden's solar plexus, he brought the same hand up streaking to the jaw; his left shot out as his man staggered to fall, and crunched home with a smash into the ...
— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle
... opportunity offered itself. He went across to Outwood's and found the two non-starters in the senior day-room, engaged in the intellectual pursuit of kicking the wall and marking the height of each kick with chalk. Adair's entrance coincided with a record effort by Stone, which caused the kicker to overbalance and stagger ...
— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse


Words linked to "Kicker" :   placekicker, kick, punter, footballer, dropkicker


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