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kicker

• 1a n. a small outboard motor.

  See also: kicker engine  

  • 1928  In such cases the kicker is hung in a hole cut at a proper height in the long overhang of the stern.
  • 1963  Travelling down-stream with a good "kicker" (outboard motor) pushing the canoe at a good speed is easy.

• 1b n. any gasoline-driven boat-motor of low horsepower.

  • 1931  Our "two-sticker with a kicker" lies in Sandy Bay harbour, Nova Scotia, outward bound for Labrador, that terra incognito even to the Maritimers.

• 2 n. a boat driven by a kicker (def. la).

  See also: kicker (def. 1a)  

  • 1929  This is the Judge's twelfth trip over the rivers, so he knows the ropes. Seymour appears to understand the "kicker."
  • 1947  An isolated sectionman's shack flashes by, or a little lake on which a lonely "kicker" put-puts its way.
  • 1963  Crafts in the air and kickers in the water get people long distances in a hurry.