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Kicker

Kicker may refer to

Business

Any person not able to make a decision independently / aka 'Booter'. Antonym of 'kiddie' or 'cheese' colloquial term within British sales subculture.

Athletics

Placekicker, a position in American and Canadian football
Kicker (sports magazine), a well-known German sports magazine
Kicker (extreme sports), a type of ramp used to help an athlete gain higher altitutudes
Kicker, the German colloquial term for a football (soccer) player

Gambling

A kicker (poker) or side card, 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
Kicker is an add-on lottery game played with Mega Millions in the Ohio Lottery, or with Cash 5 in the Connecticut Lottery (the two Kickers serve different purposes)

Other games

Kicker is the alternate title of the 1985 Konami arcade video game, Shao-Lin's Road
Kicker, the word used in Belgium, Finland and Germany for foosball (American), tafelvoetbal (Dutch) and Babyfoot (French)

Other uses

Kicker (audio), a manufacturer of consumer audio products.
Kicker (KDE), the taskbar for the K Desktop Environment
Kicker (Oregon tax rebate), a refund distributed to taxpayers in the U.S. state of Oregon when state revenue exceeds expenditures by a certain margin
Kicker (Transformers), a Transformers: Energon character
Kickers is also the name of a European clothing and footwear brand whose shoes were quite popular during the 1970s-80s among football supporters (casuals)
Kicker (kicker systems), a powerful magnet system used to deflect particle bunches in high energy physics machines
Kic Ker is South Korean company Crown's equivalent of Kit Kat.
Kicker, a 1960s-influenced British garage pop band on London's Track & Field record label
Kicker motor, a small auxiliary outboard motor on a motorboat or sailboat, usually used for low speed operation (such as fishing), or as a backup for the primary means of propulsion
Kicker, a piece of additional information printed as an accompaniment to a news headline. It is a subordinate clause and comes in present tense. The point size is usually smaller and is placed on top of the headline. When it is placed under the headline it is called a rider. It is a term common with journalists, especially sub editors.
Also in journalism, the kicker is the usually "soft" story used to end a television newscast. Its purpose is to pad the time at the end, as the story can be dropped if the newscast is running long.
Kicker (lighting)
The word "Kicker" (short for "Shit-Kicker") is known in parts of Texas as slang for Cowboy or Redneck
On a sail boat, the boom vang

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Kicker" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, French, Italian.

Translation(s) in other languages: Japanese: キッカー, Russian: Кикер (значения).


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