Kicker or The Kicker may refer to:
Sports
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Placekicker
In gridiron football, the placekicker (PK), or simply kicker (K), is the player responsible for attempts at scoring Field goal (football), field goals and extra points. In most cases, the placekicker also serves as the team's kickoff specialist ...
, a position in American and Canadian football
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''Kicker'' (magazine), sports magazine in Germany
* Kicker, the German colloquial term for an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
player
* Kicker, the word used in Belgium, Finland, Germany, and Russia for
table football
Table football, known as foosball or table soccer in North America, is a tabletop game loosely based on association football. Its objective is to move the ball into the opponent's Scoring in association football, goal by manipulating rods whic ...
* Kicker, another name for
Kickball
Kickball (also known as soccer baseball in most of Canada and football rounders in the United Kingdom) is a team sport and league game, similar to baseball. Like baseball, it is a safe haven game in which one team tries to score by having it ...
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Flea Kicker
The 1997 Nebraska vs. Missouri football game was the ninety-first edition of the Missouri–Nebraska rivalry, held on November 8, 1997 at Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri. It is most remembered for NU's game-tying touchdown as time expired th ...
, a play executed by the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
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Nicolás Kicker
Nicolás Kicker (, born 16 August 1992 in Merlo) is an Argentine tennis player. He plays mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. Kicker achieved his highest career singles ranking of 78 in June 2017. He has won 4 singles titles, and 1 doubles title o ...
(born 1992), Argentine tennis player
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Kicker (dominoes), a domino tile that increases the count by one spot
* Kicker, the upward-sloping part of a jump in a ski/snowboard
terrain park
A terrain park or snow park is an outdoor recreation area containing terrain that allows skiers, snowboarders and snowbikers to perform tricks. Terrain parks have their roots in skateparks and many of the features are common to both.
From th ...
Association football
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BSC Kickers 1900 Berlin from Berlin, Germany
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Kickers Emden
BSV Kickers Emden is a Football in Germany, German association football club, located in Emden, Lower Saxony.
History
The club first began playing in 1928 as a section of the gymnastics club Emder Turnverein, which was founded in 1861. An inde ...
from Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Kickers Frankfurt, one of the two teams who formed the actual Eintracht Frankfurt, from Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
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Kickers Offenbach
Offenbacher Fussball-Club Kickers, commonly known as Kickers Offenbach, is a German association football club in Offenbach am Main, Hesse. The club was founded on 27 May 1901 in the Rheinischer Hof restaurant by footballers who had left establis ...
from Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany
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Kickers Würzburg from Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Calgary Kickers
The Calgary Strikers (formerly the Calgary Kickers) were a Canadian soccer team in Calgary, Alberta, that competed in the Canadian Soccer League from 1987 to 1989. They were founded as the Calgary Kickers for the 1987 and 1988 seasons, winning t ...
from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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California Kickers from Hollywood, California, United States
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Denver Kickers from Denver, Colorado, United States
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Los Angeles Kickers
The Los Angeles Kickers were an amateur American soccer team established in 1951. The club won the National Challenge Cup, now known as the U.S. Open Cup, in 1958 and 1964.
In 1951, Albert Ebert and Fritz Ermert founded the Los Angeles Kickers ...
from Los Angeles, California, United States
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SV Kickers Pforzheim from Pforzheim, Germany
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Potsdamer Kickers from Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
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Richmond Kickers
Richmond Kickers is an American professional soccer club based in Richmond, Virginia. The Kickers compete as a member of USL League One (USL1). The club was established in 1993, and began play that same year as a United States Interregional S ...
from Richmond, Virginia, United States
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St. Petersburg Kickers from St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.
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Stuttgarter Kickers
Stuttgarter Kickers is a German association football club that plays in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, founded on 21 September 1899 as FC Stuttgarter Cickers. The club currently plays in the Regionalliga Südwest, the fourth tier of German footb ...
from Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Violet Kickers F.C. from Jamaica
Gambling
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Kicker (poker)
A kicker, also called a side card, is a card in a poker hand that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same rank.
For example, the hand Q-Q-10-5-2 is ranked as a pai ...
or side card, a tie breaking card in poker
* "Kicker", an option in the
Connecticut Lottery
The Connecticut Lottery Corporation, also called the CT Lottery, is the official lottery in Connecticut. It was created in 1971 by then-Gov. Thomas Meskill, who signed Public Act No. 865. The first tickets were sold on February 15, 1972. The Con ...
's ''Cash 5'' game
* "The Kicker", an option in the
Ohio Lottery
The Ohio Lottery is a state lottery run by the Ohio Lottery Commission. Its games consist of scratch tickets; Pick 3, Pick 4, Pick 5 ("numbers games"); Rolling Cash 5, Classic Lotto, Keno, Lucky for Life, Mega Millions, and Powerball.
The Lotter ...
's ''Classic Lotto'' game
Music
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''The Kicker'' (Bobby Hutcherson album), 1999
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''The Kicker'' (Joe Henderson album), 1967
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''Kicker'' (album), by Zella Day (2015)
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''Kicker'' (EP), by The Get Up Kids (2018)
Other
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Kicker (journalism)
News style, journalistic style, or news-writing style is the prose style used for news reporting in media, such as newspapers, radio, and television.
News writing attempts to answer all the basic questions about any particular event—who, what, ...
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Kicker (KDE)
Kicker (also referred to as ''KDE Panel'') is the main panel used in KDE 3 and earlier, and also in the TDE desktop. Together with KDesktop, it forms the graphical shell. It can be customized by the user. By default, it has the K Menu, a Des ...
, the taskbar for the K Desktop Environment
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Kicker (''Transformers''), a ''Transformers: Energon'' character
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Kicker Statue, created by sculptor Josef Tabachnyk
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Kickers (brand)
Kickers is a youth brand created in 1970 in France that produces a wide range of footwear and clothing. Kickers was bought in 2007 by the Royer group.
Kickers are primarily popular amongst British school children, with Kickers 'Lo' style shoes ...
, a European clothing and footwear brand
* The common name for the
Oregon tax rebate
* On a sailboat, the
boom vang
A boom vang (US) or kicking strap (UK) (often shortened to "vang" or "kicker") is a line or piston system on a sailboat used to exert downward force on the boom and thus control the shape of the sail.
The Collins English Dictionary defines it a ...
* A part of a
pinball machine
Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en route or when it comes to rest. Historically the board was studded with nails call ...
* Alternative name for the video game ''
Shao-lin's Road''
See also
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