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kicker, n.|ˈkɪkə(r)|
[f. kick v.1 + -er1.]
1. a. One that kicks; spec. a horse or other animal given to kicking.
1573–80Baret Alv. K 45 A kicker or winser, calcitro. 1611Beaum. & Fl. King & No King iv. iii, The boy..being thorowly kick'd, laughs at the kicker. 1660Sanderson Serm. II. 411 The Persecutors..kick against the pricks.. which pierce into the heels of the kicker. 1884St. James's Gaz. 10 Sept. 4/2 The camel..is a powerful kicker.
b. fig. One who protests, objects, or rebels; one who breaks away from his party. Chiefly U.S.
1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. iii. lxiii. 459 He who takes his own course is a Kicker or Bolter. 1893Harper's Mag. Apr. 709/2 The pioneer is radical, impatient of dogmas, and a ‘kicker’ by instinct.
2. A cricket-ball that rises more than usual in rebounding from the pitch.
1894N. Gale Cricket Songs, Ode to W. G., Nothing comes amiss, Kicker, shooter, yorker.
3. Mining. ‘A liberating catch made in the form of a bell crank lever rocking on a horizontal axis’ (Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining 1883).
4. Mining. See quots. [perh. a distinct word.]
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. L j, Kicker [is] a Branch or small Piece of Wholes, left for the support of some Rider or large Stone, or else some Lid. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Kicker, ground left in first cutting a vein, for support of its sides.
5. Poker. A high third card retained in the hand with a pair at the draw.
1892W. J. Florence Handbk. Poker 91 To keep two small cards and an ace is called holding up ‘a kicker’. This draw is made by the player, hopeful of getting two pairs, with the additional ace or king. 1895‘Templar’ Poker Manual 57 Sometimes a player raises on a single pair and a kicker, i.e. a high card. 1946Morehead & Mott-Smith Penguin Hoyle 127 To keep an ace or other high card as a ‘kicker’ seriously decreases the chances of improving.
6. An outboard motor, or a boat driven by one. Also attrib. N. Amer. colloq.
1928L. R. Freeman Nearing North ii. i. 132 The kicker is hung in a hole cut at a proper height in the long overhang of the stern. 1937Times 13 Oct. 15/6 At Fort Simpson..four of us went upstream to a creek in a ‘kicker’ (which is a canoe powered by an out-board motor) and swam luxuriously. 1942L. Rich We took to Woods (1944) ii. 33, I want to cut the stern off square, when I get the price of an outboard motor, and make a kicker-boat out of it. 1953Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §82a/1 Kicker, an auxiliary motor on a boat. 1963R. D. Symons Many Trails xvi. 165 Travelling downstream with a good ‘kicker’ (outboard motor) pushing the canoe at a good speed is easy. 1967E. B. Nickerson Kayaks to Arctic iv. 30 Soon we learned to..differentiate outboard motors, or ‘kickers’ as they are universally called here.
7. Printing. (See quots.)
1930K. E. Olson Typogr. & Mechanics of Newspaper xiii. 421 Every fiftieth or one-hundredth paper is turned slightly askew by an automatic ‘kicker’ in order to facilitate the making up of bundles of given content. 1967V. Strauss Printing Industry vi. 384/1 Counting of newspapers is made easier by the ‘kicker’, a metal arm which pushes, say, every 25th or every 50th paper out of line, thereby dividing the flow of papers into smaller batches. |
