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noun

Kicker n.

One who, or that which, kicks.

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)

Hence: An unforeseen added expense or additional cost; as, the printer was cheap, but the special paper it needed was an expensive kicker.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Kicker" Quotes from Famous Books

... is on the top of Chunkey Smith's butte; that's what makes it I can't get up in the mornin' without having myself turned inter a three-ringed circus. But I ain't the man to complain. Ef there's anything that gums up the cards of life, it's a kicker; so jes' as one man to another, I tells you what's wrong here and leaves you to figger it ...

— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips

... declare it, or paint it, or smell it? Shall the price of a slave be its treasure to keep? When the night has grown near with the gems on her bosom, When the white of mine eyes is the whiteness of snow, When the cabman—in liquor—drives a blue roan, a kicker, Into the land ...

— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells

... animal is a confirmed Kicker. We'll give him a little tinware, just to amuse him. (Some tin pans and bells are attached to the animal's tail, but, perceiving that kicks are expected from him, his natural contrariness makes him decline to make sport ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, July 2, 1892 • Various

... are divided into two equal teams, each of which selects a kicker for the ball. There should also be one leader who serves for the two teams. The kicker for each team stands five feet within his half of the ground measuring from the center, and should be halfway between the two side boundary lines. The rest of the players for each team line up on the ...

— Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium • Jessie H. Bancroft

... with favour on my new pet was her profound ignorance of horses and ponies in general. Except as to colour or length of tail, she recognized no difference between one and another. As to any distinctions between "play" and "vice," a fidgety animal and a determined kicker, a friendly nose-rub and a malicious resolve to bite, they were not discernible by Mrs. Bundle's ...

— A Flat Iron for a Farthing - or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son • Juliana Horatia Ewing

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