noun

• One who kicks.
• (sports) One who takes kicks.
• (American football) A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
• (nautical) The kicking strap.
• (nautical, informal) An outboard motor.
• (colloquial) An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant, serving as a punchline or clincher.
• (finance) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
• (poker) An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.
• (journalism) Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
• (journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
• (journalism) Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”)
• (radio, television) A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
• (printing) A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
• (sports) A launch ramp.
• (prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
• (informal) A relaxed party.
• (film, television) A backlight positioned at an angle.
• (pinball) A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
• (performance art) A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
• (US, slang, archaic) A complainer.
• (slang, Southern US) A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.