Other forms: kickers
A kicker is someone who kicks. It’s usually a football player, but even a donkey can be one. A kicker is also a surprise. You might know you have a test, but the kicker is that you have to take it blindfolded.
Football games involve players running and throwing the ball, but occasionally they have the opportunity to kick the ball down the field or over the goalpost, and this is done by the kicker. In soccer — also called football in much of the world — every player on the team is a kicker. The noun kicker comes from the verb kick; one guess about the word's origins say it comes from the Old Norse kikna, "sink at the knees."