KICKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kicker mean? 

• KICKER (noun)
  The noun KICKER has 1 sense:

1. a player who kicks the football

  Familiarity information: KICKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KICKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A player who kicks the football

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("kicker" is a kind of...):

football player; footballer (an athlete who plays American football)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kicker"):

dropkicker (a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground)

place-kicker; placekicker ((football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal)

punter ((football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground)

Derivation:

kick (drive or propel with the foot)

 Context examples 

The kicker to this story was that the man who printed these fraudulent checks called me a few days later, irate that the bank pulled back my money, causing the bogus checks to bounce.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)