[ noun ] a player who kicks the football <noun.person>
Kicker \Kick"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, kicks.
2. A fact, condition, or circumstance, sometimes concealed or not obvious, which reduces or eliminates the benefit of an apparently advantageous situation; a joker[5]; as, under the Soviet system, bread was good and cheap, but the kicker was that you waited in line for hours to get any, if it was available. [informal] [PJC]
3. Hence: An unforeseen added expense or additional cost; as, the printer was cheap, but the special paper it needed was an expensive kicker. [PJC]
Separately, industry sources said IBM will make a major mainframe announcement next Tuesday, and speculated that it will include long-awaited software enhancements that would serve as a midlife kicker for IBM's tiring mainframe line.
The kicker on Telefonos is the proposed free-trade pact between the U.S. and Mexico.
The kicker is that they'll sell you supplements."
But the kicker was that no assistance could be delivered until agreement was reached on resettling the rebels in the cease-fire zone.
"That's the real kicker," he says.
"Funny thing," says the kicker, "both these candidates are named Rudolph Giuliani."
That sort of thing isn't unusual in college sports these days, nor is the kicker added by the UNC athletics department.
To lure buyers to the Chicago & North Western bonds, portfolio managers said Donaldson Lufkin sweetened the transaction by offering the bonds with a resettable interest rate and a 10% equity kicker.