kicker
名词 n.
英 /ˈkɪkə/
美 /ˈkɪkɚ/
英文释义
名词 n.
- One who kicks.
- A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.
- One who takes kicks.
- One who takes kicks.; A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
- The kicking strap.
- An outboard motor.
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An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant, serving as a punchline or clincher.
— John wants to climb the wall, but the kicker is that it is thirty feet tall.
- An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
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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.
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Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
— Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
- The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
- Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”).
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A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
— […] international news and politics, and heavy on the light stuff: local news, entertainment and merry little kickers […]
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A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
— In a printing machine, the combination of a kicker mechanism for displacing a newspaper […]
- A launch ramp.
- The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
- A relaxed party.
- A backlight positioned at an angle.
- A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
- A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
- A complainer.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From kick + -er.
词源 2
The southern-U.S. sense referring to a person derives from shitkicker, referring to a cowboy with boots used to kick away cow manure.
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