Kicker vs Dicker - What's the difference?
kicker | dicker |
One who kicks.
(sports) One who takes kicks.
(nautical) The kicking strap.
(nautical, informal) An outboard motor.
(colloquial) An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant.
(finance) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
(poker) An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.
(slang, Southern US) A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes and/or philosophy.
(journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
to bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale
to barter
* Cooper
(obsolete) The number or quantity of ten, particularly modifying hides or skins; a daker.
* Heywood
* 1866 , The dicker, or daker, was ten, and is found, though generally at later times than the period before us, as a measure for hides and gloves. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , volume 1, page 171
(US) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.
* Whittier
As nouns the difference between kicker and dicker
is that kicker is foosball, table soccer while dicker is (obsolete) the number or quantity of ten, particularly modifying hides or skins; a daker.As a verb dicker is
to bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.kicker
English
Noun
(en noun)- John wants to climb the wall, but the kicker is that it is thirty feet tall.
- Tuition is free; the kicker is that mandatory room and board costs twice as much as at other colleges.
- Jill's hand was two pair, aces and sevens, with a king kicker .
Derived terms
* knee kickerAnagrams
* ----dicker
English
Verb
- Ready to dicker and to swap.
Noun
(en noun)- A dicker of cowhides.
- to make a dicker
- For peddling dicker , not for honest sales.