Kicker

Kicker may refer to:

Sports

• Placekicker, a position in American and Canadian football
• Kicker (sports magazine), a well-known German sports magazine
• Kicker, the German colloquial term for an association football player
• Kicker, the word used in Belgium, Finland, Germany and Russia for table football
• Kicker, another name for Kickball

Association football

Several football teams share the name Kickers:

• BSC Kickers 1900 Berlin from Berlin, Germany
• Kickers Emden from Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Kickers Frankfurt, one of the two teams who formed the actual Eintracht Frankfurt, from Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
• Kickers Offenbach from Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany
• Kickers Würzburg from Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany
• Calgary Kickers from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• California Kickers from Hollywood, California, United States
• Denver Kickers from Denver, Colorado, United States
• Los Angeles Kickers from Los Angeles, California, United States
• SV Kickers Pforzheim from Pforzheim, Germany
• Potsdamer Kickers from Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
• Richmond Kickers from Richmond, Virginia, United States
• St. Petersburg Kickers from St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.
• Stuttgarter Kickers from Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Violet Kickers F.C. from Jamaica.

Gambling

• A kicker (poker) or side card, 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
• Kicker, an option in the Connecticut Lottery's Cash 5 game
• The Kicker, an option in the Ohio Lottery's Classic Lotto game

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 (brand), a European clothing and footwear brand
• Kicker, a short lead-in phrase, usually of five words or less
• On a sailboat, the boom vang
• Alternative name for Shao-lin's Road, a video game
• An individual who performs a kick
• A reference to an outboard engine on a small boat. Typically in the southern United States.
• Kicker (journalism)
• A part of a pinball machine - see Pinball#Kickers and slingshots