different between kicker vs icker

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?k?/
• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Etymology 1

kick +? -er

Noun

kicker (plural kickers)

1. One who kicks.
2. (sports) One who takes kicks.
   1. (American football) or placekicker — a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
3. (nautical) The kicking strap.
4. (nautical, informal) An outboard motor.
5. (colloquial) An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant.
6. (finance) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
7. (poker) An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.

8. (journalism) Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
   • 1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, ?Edward C. Nicholls, ?Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing (page 104)

     Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.

9. (journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
10. (journalism) Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”)
11. (radio, television) A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
    • 1984, Media Report to Women (volume 12, page 46)

      […] international news and politics, and heavy on the light stuff: local news, entertainment and merry little kickers […]

    • 2013, Frank Barnas, Ted White, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing (page 77)

      Instead, a reporter can carve out a niche as an entertainment/community reporter, thus concentrating their efforts on filing feature stories for the E block, where the kickers are slated. Kickers are feel-good pieces placed at the end of the newscast to leave viewers in a good mood […]

12. (printing) A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
    • 1931, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (page 490)

      In a printing machine, the combination of a kicker mechanism for displacing a newspaper […]

13. (sports) A launch ramp.
14. (prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".

    Synonym: motor

15. (informal) A relaxed party.

    Synonym: kickback

16. (film, television) A backlight positioned at an angle.

    Synonym: kick

17. (pinball) A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.

Derived terms

• knee kicker

Translations

Etymology 2

The southern-U.S. sense referring to a person derives from shit-kicker, referring to a cowboy with boots used to kick away cow manure.

Noun

kicker (plural kickers)

1. (slang, Southern US) A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.

Translations

Anagrams

• rekick

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.kœ?/

Noun

kicker m (uncountable)

1. (Belgium) table football, table soccer

Synonyms

• babyfoot
• baby-foot
• football de table

Etymology 2

Borrowing from English kick (“to eject from an internet forum”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.ke/

Verb

kicker

1. (Internet) to kick; to eject (e.g. from a forum)

Conjugation

Further reading

• “kicker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Noun

icker (plural ickers)

1. A head of grain.

Anagrams

• Erick, Ricke, Rieck, crike, erick

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k?r/

Noun

icker (plural ickers)

1. Alternative form of aicher