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单词 kicker
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kickern.

Brit. /ˈkɪkə/, U.S. /ˈkɪkər/
Etymology: < kick v.1 + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One that kicks; spec. a horse or other animal given to kicking.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > that kicks
kicker1574
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the foot > kicking > one who or that which
wincerc1440
spurner1555
kicker1574
funker1825
1574 J. Baret Aluearie K 40 A kicker or winser, calcitro.
1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King (new ed.) iv. 63 The boy..being thoroughly kickt, laughes at the kicker.
1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 411 The Persecutors..kick against the pricks..which pierce into the heels of the kicker.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 10 Sept. 4/2 The camel..is a powerful kicker.
b. figurative. One who protests, objects, or rebels; one who breaks away from his party. Chiefly U.S.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > [noun] > one who rebels
rebel1340
rebeller1398
revolter1576
revolt1585
rebellant1586
Whig1683
révolté1792
kicker1888
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > deserting one's party > one who
rat1755
bolter1812
ratter1819
Jim Crow1837
kicker1888
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxiii. 459 He who takes his own course is a Kicker or Bolter.
1893 Harper'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.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball
full toss1826
long hop1830
twister1832
bail ball1833
bailer1833
grubber1837
slow ball1838
wide1838
ground ball1839
shooter1843
slower ball1846
twiddler1847
creeper1848
lob1851
sneak1851
sneaker1851
slow1854
bumper1855
teaser1856
daisy-cutter1857
popper1857
yorker1861
sharpshooter1863
headball1866
screwball1866
underhand1866
skimmerc1868
grub1870
ramrod1870
raymonder1870
round-armer1871
grass cutter1876
short pitch1877
leg break1878
lob ball1880
off-break1883
donkey-drop1888
tice1888
fast break1889
leg-breaker1892
kicker1894
spinner1895
wrong 'un1897
googly1903
fizzer1904
dolly1906
short ball1911
wrong 'un1911
bosie1912
bouncer1913
flyer1913
percher1913
finger-spinner1920
inswinger1920
outswinger1920
swinger1920
off-spinner1924
away swinger1925
Chinaman1929
overspinner1930
tweaker1938
riser1944
leg-cutter1949
seamer1952
leggy1954
off-cutter1955
squatter1955
flipper1959
lifter1959
cutter1960
beamer1961
loosener1962
doosra1999
1894 N. Gale Ode to W. G. in Cricket Songs (new ed.) Nothing comes amiss, Kicker, shooter, yorker.
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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. (See quot.)
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1886 J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 40 Kicker, the reversing gear of some direct-acting steam and hydraulic pumps.
5. Mining. See quots. [perhaps a distinct word.]
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1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Lj Kicker [is] a Branch or small Piece of Wholes, left for the support of some Rider or large Stone, or else some Lid.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 149 Kicker, ground left in first cutting a vein, for support of its sides.
6. Poker. A high third card retained in the hand with a pair at the draw.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > type of card
openers1889
kicker1892
hole-card1908
rag1978
river1978
1892 W. J. Florence Gentleman's 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 Man. 57 Sometimes a player raises on a single pair and a kicker, i.e. a high card.
1901 D. A. Curtis Sci. Draw Poker 57 Drawing two cards to a pair and a kicker, the chances of a Full are 6 in 1081.
1946 A. H. Morehead & G. Mott-Smith Penguin Hoyle 127 To keep an ace or other high card as a ‘kicker’ seriously decreases the chances of improving.
7. Lumbering. A device for throwing or rolling a log in a desired direction. In full log kicker.
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1922 R. C. Bryant Lumber 44 Logs which are elevated into the mill by an endless chain are thrown or rolled upon the deck by by means of log kickers of various types.
8. An outboard motor, or a boat driven by one. Also attributive. North American colloquial.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > propelled by inboard or outboard motor
kicker1928
outboard1935
inboard1979
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > marine engine > types of
steeple engine1839
launch-engine1875
kicker1928
inboard1929
outboard1935
outdrive1961
trolling motor1964
sterndrive1968
thruster1972
putter1975
1928 L. 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.
1937 Times 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.
1942 L. D. 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.
1953 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §82a/1 Kicker, an auxiliary motor on a boat.
1963 R. D. Symons Many Trails xvi. 165 Travelling downstream with a good ‘kicker’ (outboard motor) pushing the canoe at a good speed is easy.
1967 E. B. Nickerson Kayaks to Arctic iv. 30 Soon we learned to..differentiate outboard motors, or ‘kickers’ as they are universally called here.
9. Printing. (See quots.)
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > device for turning paper
kicker1930
1930 K. 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.
1967 V. 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.

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Tennis colloquial. A serve characterized by heavy topspin; = kick serve n. at kick n.1 Additions. Also more fully kicker serve.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > types of play or stroke
chasec1440
loss1591
volley1596
bandy1598
back-racket1608
service1611
force1662
serve1688
serving1688
Renshaw smash1881
pass1888
railroad service1890
kicker1936
1936 Times 27 June 7/3 That hard ‘kicker’ to Maier's backhand seemed to settle the match.
1965 N.Y. Times 3 July (Late City ed.) 13/1 His second serve was a kicker that bounded high and heavy to Fred's backhand.
1973 L. Hunt in W. Overton Tennis for Women 74 I don't recommend the kicker serve to anyone without a nimble back.
2016 Australian (Nexis) 10 Oct. (Sport section) 30 [Nick Kyrgios] does not betray the direction, spin or trajectory of his serve with his ball toss—it does not shift slightly..back over his head when hitting a kicker.

Draft additions December 2016

Sport. A player who kicks the ball; spec. (esp. in American Football and Rugby) a player whose designated role in the team is to do this, in order to attempt to score or to gain a positional advantage.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > player > types of
striker1699
kicker1829
non-striker1842
feeder1844
stopper1847
defender1851
hand-in1875
hand-out1875
back1880
attacker1884
field general1895
ball carrier1902
ball-handler1912
ball-winner1972
shotmaker1974
1829 Sydney Monitor 25 July 4/5 The privates in the barracks are in the habit of amusing themselves with the game of foot-ball; the ball may be daily descried repeatedly mounting higher or lower, according to the skill and energy of the bold military kickers thereof.
1845 Bell's Life in London 9 Feb. After a severe [football] game on both sides.., the countrymen were declared victorious, and John Hallimond, the noted kicker, was carried shoulder high to the Bullring, amidst the huzzas of his partizans.
1891 W. Camp Amer. Football 64 They [sc. guards] must be taught to block securely until the ball is on its way to the runner or kicker.
1921 C. D. Daly Amer. Football ix. 163 There is a combination of kicking and rushing which can be played against a team having a superior kicker.
1986 Rugby Internat. July 23/2 People look at the goalkicking if you are a kicker. They tend to base your play on just that.
2016 Akron (Ohio) Beacon Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 Feb. b1 The kicker sends a ball soaring through the goalpost.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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