kicker

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Even without the kicker the brew is impure.
即使沒有烈酒，釀酒也是不純的。
If he (the goalkeeper) can make himself more threatening, he can distract the kicker even more.
如果他（守門員）能使自己變得更危險，他可以更讓射手分心。
The real kicker is that by design, UTF-8 is a much more robust and easily interpretable format than any other text encoding designed before or since.
真正的優勢在於設計，與以前和以後設計的其他任何文本編碼相比，UTF-8 是一種更健壯、更容易解釋的格式。

It was something that we had seen and practiced all week. The key was the kicker.
Somebody else owned them, and discovered them, and demanded that they get paid, and ended up negotiating with the company, and we got a kicker.
其他人買了這些債券，發現了這個問題，然後要求償付，到最後以和公司協商了事，然後我們得到了一個促銷品。
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節選
So the mad scientist explains all of this to you, but in order to give it a little kicker, because he's also an evil mad scientist-- that may be evil already,but because he's an evil mad scientist-- he says,And then when I'm done-- So over here we've got Shelly's body but Linda's personality.
於是瘋狂科學家曏你解釋這一切，但爲了增加一點戯劇性，因爲他同時是個邪惡的瘋狂科學家-,因爲他是既邪惡又瘋狂的科學家-,他說，儅我完成之後…,這是Shelly的肉躰和Linda的人格。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選

Rents with a percentage kicker, common in franchise operations, may be more affordable to a startup.
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(SPORT) someone who kicks, especially a player in an American football team whose job is to kick the ball
(SURPRISE) something surprising

In sports such as American football and rugby, the kicker is a player whose role includes kicking the ball.