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 altitudes
- Kicker, the German colloquial term for an association football player
Several football teams share the name Kickers:
- Kickers 1900 Berlin from Berlin, Germany.
- Kickers Emden from Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Kickers Frankfurt, one of the two teams who formed the actual Eintracht Frankfurt, from Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
- Kickers Offenbach from Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany.
- Kickers Würzburg from Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany.
- Calgary Kickers from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- California Kickers from Hollywood, California, United States.
- Denver Kickers from Denver, Colorado, United States.
- Los Angeles Kickers from Los Angeles, California, United States.
- Potsdamer Kickers from Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Richmond Kickers from Richmond, Virgina, United States.
- St. Petersburg Kickers from St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.
- Stuttgarter Kickers from Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Violet Kickers F.C. from Jamaica.
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).
In most Canadian provinces, a similar game is called Extra (Encore in Ontario and Tag in Atlantic provinces)
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 short Lead-in phrase, usually of five words or less
- 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 or radio newscast. Its purpose is to pad the time at the end, as the story can be dropped if the newscast is running long.
- The word "Kicker" (short for "shit-kicker") is known in parts of Texas as slang for cowboy or redneck
- On a sailboat, the boom vang
- Kickers were is also the name of a Swedish youth culture interested in martial arts and street fighting, largely inspired by the film, Stockholmsnatt