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The one player paid to ignore everything happening around him until the worst possible moment.
means A kicker is a person who kicks — most famously the football specialist who handles kickoffs, punts, and field goals — or, by extension, a surprising twist or extra detail that lands at the end of something.
from From the plain old verb "kick," an Old English word ("cician") of murky origin — it doesn't have obvious cousins in the other Germanic languages, so where exactly it came from is a bit of a shrug. Tack on the agent suffix "-er" (the same one that turns a baker into someone who bakes) and you get "one who kicks." The sense of a "kicker" as a sting-in-the-tail surprise grew from the idea of something that gives you a sudden jolt — a metaphorical kick you didn't see coming.
- job security
- One missed kick can end a career
- loneliest role
- Cheered or blamed, rarely anything between
- origin
- Word once meant a complainer or grumbler
- longest field goal
- NFL record stands at 66 yards
- poker too
- A surprise raise after another player's bet
robbie keane — irish footballer who kicked 126 goals in international play, most for ireland
justin tucker — baltimore ravens placekicker who made the longest nfl field goal at 66 yards in 2013
jonny wilkinson — england rugby fly-half who kicked the winning drop goal in 2003 world cup final