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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
kick + -er
Noun
kicker (plural kickers)
- One who kicks.
- (sports) One who takes kicks.
- (American football) A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
- (nautical) The kicking strap.
- (nautical, informal) An outboard motor.
- (colloquial) 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.
Tuition is free; the kicker is that mandatory room and board costs twice as much as at other colleges.
2016, David Zelman, If I Can, You Can: Transformation Made Easy:If the coffee is currently being spilled, I can't unspill it. And here's the kicker. You can't change the future, because it hasn't happened yet.
2017, “Gyalchester”, in More Life, performed by Drake:They want me gone, wait for the kicker / Bury me now and I only get bigger
- (finance) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
- (poker) 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.
- (journalism) Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, Edward C. Nicholls, Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing, page 104:Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
- (journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
- (journalism) Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”)
- (radio, television) A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
1984, Media Report to Women, volume 12, page 46:[…] international news and politics, and heavy on the light stuff: local news, entertainment and merry little kickers […]
2013, Frank Barnas, Ted White, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 77:Instead, a reporter can carve out a niche as an entertainment/community reporter, thus concentrating their efforts on filing feature stories for the E block, where the kickers are slated. Kickers are feel-good pieces placed at the end of the newscast to leave viewers in a good mood […]
- (printing) A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
1931, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 490:In a printing machine, the combination of a kicker mechanism for displacing a newspaper […]
- (sports) A launch ramp.
- (prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
- Synonym: motor
- (informal) A relaxed party.
- Synonym: kickback
- (film, television) A backlight positioned at an angle.
- Synonym: kick
- (pinball) A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
- (performance art) A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
- (US, slang, archaic) A complainer.
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Translations
sports: one who takes kicks
colloquial: unexpected situation or detail
finance: enticement for investors
poker: unpaired card in a poker hand
journalism: Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story
journalism: Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”)
journalism: the last paragraph or two of a story
Etymology 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.
Noun
kicker (plural kickers)
- (slang, Southern US) A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.
Translations
slang: particular type of resident of Texas
Anagrams
French
Etymology 1
Compare Kicker.
Pronunciation
Noun
kicker m (uncountable)
- (Belgium) table football, table soccer
- Synonyms: babyfoot, baby-foot, football de table
Etymology 2
Borrowing from English kick (“to eject from an internet forum”)
Pronunciation
Verb
kicker
- (Internet) to kick; to eject (e.g. from a forum)
Conjugation
infinitive
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simple
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kicker
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compound
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avoir + past participle
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present participle or gerund1
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simple
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kickant /ki.kɑ̃/
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compound
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ayant + past participle
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past participle
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kické /ki.ke/
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singular
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plural
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first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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indicative
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je (j’)
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tu
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il, elle, on
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nous
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vous
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ils, elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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kicke /kik/
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kickes /kik/
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kicke /kik/
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kickons /ki.kɔ̃/
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kickez /ki.ke/
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kickent /kik/
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imperfect
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kickais /ki.kɛ/
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kickais /ki.kɛ/
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kickait /ki.kɛ/
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kickions /ki.kjɔ̃/
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kickiez /ki.kje/
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kickaient /ki.kɛ/
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past historic2
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kickai /ki.ke/
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kickas /ki.ka/
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kicka /ki.ka/
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kickâmes /ki.kam/
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kickâtes /ki.kat/
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kickèrent /ki.kɛʁ/
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future
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kickerai /ki.kʁe/
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kickeras /ki.kʁa/
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kickera /ki.kʁa/
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kickerons /ki.kʁɔ̃/
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kickerez /ki.kʁe/
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kickeront /ki.kʁɔ̃/
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conditional
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kickerais /ki.kʁɛ/
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kickerais /ki.kʁɛ/
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kickerait /ki.kʁɛ/
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kickerions /ki.kə.ʁjɔ̃/
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kickeriez /ki.kə.ʁje/
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kickeraient /ki.kʁɛ/
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(compound tenses)
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present perfect
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present indicative of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect
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imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
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past anterior2
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past historic of avoir + past participle
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future perfect
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future of avoir + past participle
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conditional perfect
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conditional of avoir + past participle
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subjunctive
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que je (j’)
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que tu
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qu’il, qu’elle
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que nous
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que vous
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qu’ils, qu’elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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kicke /kik/
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kickes /kik/
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kicke /kik/
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kickions /ki.kjɔ̃/
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kickiez /ki.kje/
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kickent /kik/
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imperfect2
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kickasse /ki.kas/
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kickasses /ki.kas/
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kickât /ki.ka/
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kickassions /ki.ka.sjɔ̃/
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kickassiez /ki.ka.sje/
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kickassent /ki.kas/
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(compound tenses)
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past
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present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect2
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imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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imperative
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–
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tu
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–
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nous
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vous
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–
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simple
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—
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kicke /kik/
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—
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kickons /ki.kɔ̃/
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kickez /ki.ke/
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—
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compound
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
- past historic → present perfect
- past anterior → pluperfect
- imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
- pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).
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