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    KICKER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A player who kicks the footballplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("kicker" is a kind of...):

    football player; footballer (an athlete who plays American football)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kicker"):

    dropkicker (a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground)

    place-kicker; placekicker ((football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal)

    punter ((football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground)

    Derivation:

    kick (drive or propel with the foot)

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