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# kicker

«kicker» in Mova's school dictionary: **a player who kicks the ball, especially in American…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a kicker, kickers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A kicker is a player who kicks the ball, especially in American football or rugby, to score points or kick it far. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kicker/#m1)

2) (informal) The kicker is a surprising twist or extra fact at the end, often an unpleasant one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kicker/#m2)

3) (informal) A kicker is a person or animal that kicks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kicker/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Sport: «the team's kicker», «goal kicker» in rugby and Australian football. Everyday: «And here's the kicker…» introduces a surprise. Stories: a donkey that is a kicker.

### examples

- The kicker scored the winning goal in the last second. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kicker/#x1)
- The rugby team's best kicker took the conversion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kicker/#x2)
- The trip was cancelled, and the kicker was we'd already packed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kicker/#x3)
- Watch out, that horse is a kicker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kicker/#x4)
- And here's the kicker: the treasure was fake! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kicker/#x5)
- The kicker practises every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kicker/#x6)

### note

Plural: kickers. «The kicker» meaning «the surprising part» is informal.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kicker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kicker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.