kicker
踢球者,踢球的人,踢球手,踢球员
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Definitions
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- : a person or thing that kicks.
- : Informal. a disadvantageous point or circumstance, usually concealed or unnoticed: The tickets are free, but the kicker is that you have to wait in line for hours to get them.a surprising change or turn of events: The kicker was that their friends knew it before they did.
- : something extra, as an additional cost or gain; an added expense or financial incentive.
- : Draw Poker. a card, usually an ace or face card, held with a pair or three of a kind in the hope of drawing a matching card.
- : a low plinth at the base of a column.
- : kickers, Slang. shoes, especially leisure shoes.
- : Nautical. a small, low-powered outboard motor.an auxiliary engine on a sailing vessel, river steamer, etc.
- : Slang. the alcoholic liquor in a mixed drink.
- : Also called eyebrow, highline, overline, teaser. Printing, Journalism. a short line of copy set in a distinctive type above a headline and intended to call attention to it.
- : Metallurgy. a charge of high-carbon iron that produces a vigorous boil when charged into an open-hearth furnace containing slag and molten metal of lower carbon content.
- : Also called kicker light .Photography. a light source coming from the back and side of a subject and producing a highlight.
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Examples
Bob Warden, a former kicker for Brown’s football team, and his wife, Margaret Smith Walden, a former Yale hockey player, pushed the Ivy League Council of Presidents for a return to competition in January, according to Sports Business Journal.
Wherever she lands, the first time she steps on the field, she will be the first woman to play a position other than punter or kicker on an NCAA team.
He attended practice regularly, counseled Rivera during difficult decisions and provided feedback on how the coach could improve as a leader, including being nicer to his kicker.
Before that moment, though, kickers are treated like an afterthought — by the teams that will eventually count on them and by the schools that primarily spend their scholarships elsewhere.
Fuller became part of the Commodores’ football squad after the team’s regular kickers were sidelined by the coronavirus.
And the kicker is—some of the candidates are even Republicans.
The kicker to it is that the worst part is that the person in the nightmare experience ends up being a Democrat too.
He should have shifted the blame from his field goal kicker to himself.
He left on the bench his starting kicker who had been having a terrible day, missing three earlier field goals.
Gil Norton is an ass-kicker, so he put a lot of pressure on me to come up with the goods in a way that rang true to him.
There was a game of foot-ball just about to begin, and Barney was conceded to be the best kicker for his size in all Hackerton.
If he fidgets, you will find a long day on his back most fatiguing, and should he be a kicker your enjoyment will be marred.
On your "side-kicker's" nerve, loyalty, aim, and coolness your own life may depend many times.
Unless I was the kicker, I think Paddy would have returned up the staircase after his assailant.
Harris was a left-foot kicker and was accustomed to taking a pretty long stride to the left side before he swung.