Meaning

• One who kicks.

• One who takes kicks.

• The kicking strap.

• An outboard motor.

• An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant.

  "John wants to climb the wall, but the kicker is that it is thirty feet tall."

• An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.

• An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.

  "Jill's hand was two pair, aces and sevens, with a king kicker."

• Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.

• The last one or two paragraphs of a story.

• A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.

• A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.

• A launch ramp.

• The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".

• A relaxed party.

• A backlight positioned at an angle.

Meaning

• An introduction; something that leads into the beginning of something.

  "After the long lead-in, the climax of the story was a disappointment."

• A region of data at the beginning of a compact disc, holding the table of contents.

• A short phrase that begins the caption of a photograph.