Wednesday, March 31, 2010

53. Kicker

kick·er [kik-er]
–noun
  1. a person or thing that kicks
  2. disadvantageous point or circumstance, usually concealed or unnoticed
  3. an added expense or financial incentive
  4. a card, usually an ace or face card, held with a pair or three of a kind in the hope of drawing a matching card
  5. a low plinth at the base of a column
  6. leisure shoes
  7. an auxiliary engine on a sailing vessel, river steamer, etc
  8. the alcoholic liquor in a mixed drink
  9. a short line of copy set in a distinctive type above a headline and intended to call attention to it
  10. a charge of high-carbon iron that produces a vigorous boil when charged into an open-hearth furnace containing slag and molten metal of lower carbon content
  11. a light source coming from the back and side of a subject and producing a highlight

My thanks to Dictionary.com... I hope you don't sue me for plagiarism.

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