Other Uses
- Kicker (audio), a manufacturer of consumer audio products.
- Kicker (KDE), the taskbar for the K Desktop Environment
- Kicker, the common name for the Oregon tax rebate, a refund distributed to taxpayers in the U.S. state of Oregon when state revenue exceeds expenditures by a certain margin
- Kicker (Transformers), a Transformers: Energon character
- Kickers is also the name of a European clothing and footwear brand whose shoes were quite popular during the 1970s-80s among football supporters (casuals)
- Kicker (kicker systems), a powerful magnet system used to deflect particle bunches in high energy physics machines
- Kic Ker is South Korean company Crown's equivalent of Kit Kat.
- Kicker, a short Lead-in phrase, usually of five words or less
- Kicker motor, a small auxiliary outboard motor on a motorboat or sailboat, usually used for low speed operation (such as fishing), or as a backup for the primary means of propulsion
- Kicker, a piece of additional information printed as an accompaniment to a news headline. It is a subordinate clause and comes in present tense. The point size is usually smaller and is placed on top of the headline. When it is placed under the headline it is called a rider. It is a term common with journalists, especially sub editors.
- Also in journalism, the kicker is the usually "soft" story used to end a television or radio newscast. Its purpose is to pad the time at the end, as the story can be dropped if the newscast is running long.
- The word "Kicker" (short for "shit-kicker") is known in parts of Texas as slang for cowboy or redneck
- On a sailboat, the boom vang
- Kickers were is also the name of a Swedish youth culture interested in martial arts and street fighting, largely inspired by the film, Stockholmsnatt
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