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kicker
noun- an unforeseen complication US, 1941
- Maybe they were playing real cute and sent her in for the kicker. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 89, 1951
- The real kicker came the following year. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 6, 1970
- "Here it comes," said Binky, nudging DeDe under the tablecloth. "She’s always got a kicker." — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 120, 1978
- If you played out your contract with the team you belonged to–because they drafted you out of college–you couldn’t go to another club unless that club "compensated" the club you were with. That was the kicker. — Dan Jenkins, Life Its Ownself, p. 74, 1984
- in poker, an unmatched card held in the hand while drawing US
- — Irwin Steig, Common Sense in Poker, p. 185, 1963
- in the illegal production of alcohol, any nitrate added to the mash US
- — David W. Maurer, Kentucky Moonshine, p. 120, 1974
- a small, yeast-rich amount of an alcoholic beverage used to start the fermentation process in a homemade alcohol-making venture US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 70, 1992
- in television and film-making, a small light used to outline objects in the foreground US
- — Ralph S. Singleton, Filmaker’s Dictionary, p. 90, 1990
- in dominoes, the 6–1 piece or any piece with a 5 US
- — Dominic Armanino, Dominoes, p. 17, 1959
- a member of a civilian air crew dropping supplies by parachute to troops in remote areas US
The handlers literally kicked the supply crates with parachutes out of the plane doors. - — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 264, 1990
- a member of the Mountjoy prison riot squad IRELAND
- I was standing outside, wondering to meself [sic] how much mileage Frank Carson could get out of a Mountjoy "hunger-strike" joke, when the Mountjoy riot squad, or "kickers" as we called them, arrived. — Howard Paul, The Joy, p. 38, 1996
- on the railways, a jammed air brake valve US
- — J. Herbert Lund, Herb’s Hot Box of Railraod Slang, p. 8, 1975
- a linear amplifier for a citizens’ band radio US
- — Porter Bibb, CB Bible, p. 97, 1976
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