Kicker vs. Kickee — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Kicker and Kickee
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Definitions
Kicker
One that kicks
Stayed clear of the donkey known to be a kicker.
The team's kicker who kicks field goals.
Kickee
One who is kicked.
Kicker
A sudden, surprising turn of events or ending; a twist.
Kicker
A tricky or concealed condition; a pitfall
"The kicker is that the relationship of guide and seeker gets all mixed up with a confusing male-female attachment" (Gail Sheehy).
Kicker
A condition that imposes an automatic increase, as in a pension plan.
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Kicker
A small outboard motor.
Kicker
One who kicks.
Kicker
(sports) One who takes kicks.
Kicker
(American football) A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
Kicker
(nautical) The kicking strap.
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Kicker
An outboard motor.
Kicker
(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.
Kicker
(finance) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
Kicker
(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.
Kicker
(journalism) Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
Kicker
(journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
Kicker
(journalism) lead-in
Kicker
A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
Kicker
(printing) A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
Kicker
(sports) A launch ramp.
Kicker
(prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
Kicker
(informal) A relaxed party.
Kicker
A backlight positioned at an angle.
Kicker
(pinball) A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
Kicker
(performance art) A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
Kicker
A complainer.
Kicker
A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.
Kicker
One who, or that which, kicks.
Kicker
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.
Kicker
An unforeseen added expense or additional cost; as, the printer was cheap, but the special paper it needed was an expensive kicker.
Kicker
A player who kicks the football