What's the difference between kicker and ricker?

Kicker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, kicks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But here's the kicker: the trailer actually has very little to do with the content of the game.
  • (2) Tucker remains one of the lowest paid kickers in the league with a $480,000 salary, which is good for 27th among kickers.
  • (3) It was still only just enough, New Orleans winning 26-24 after kicker Shayne Graham – who has been with the team less than a month – converted a 32-yard field goal as time expired.
  • (4) Freshman kicker Cade Foster missed the attempt which fell into the arms of Auburn's Chris Davis who returned it from 109 yards for the game winning touchdown.
  • (5) With leading goal kickers Travis Cloke and Jamie Elliott out injured, Collingwood needed to find new avenues to goal and Moore, switched from defence to attack, and Levi Greenwood stepped up with their first goals in black-and-white.
  • (6) Running back Frank Gore did the rest, powering through the middle to move the ball closer and set up what would normally have been a comfortable chance for Dawson, although the kicker had described the ball as feeling "like a brick" in the brutally cold conditions.
  • (7) The ball was flipped to place kicker Justin Tucker, who rolled away to the left in a mad dash towards the first-down marker.
  • (8) At $3.3 million, he's the fourth best paid kicker in the NFL.
  • (9) The German centre-back gave an interview in Kicker magazine last week in which he demanded a stronger Dortmund team for next season, otherwise he may consider his own future.
  • (10) 2.19am GMT Florida State 3-7 Auburn, 14:56, 2nd quarter Well the Auburn defense survives the roughing the kicker penalty, Winston's pass to Greene is stuffed on 3 and 8 by Chris Davis, and FSU does indeed punt finally.
  • (11) Fantatic tackle by the kicker who saved the day - Denver start on their own 37.
  • (12) Robshaw, devastated, explained after this match that he had spoken to the two kickers on the field, George Ford and Owen Farrell, and that they’d decided between the three of them that they wanted to go for the win.
  • (13) Signs are not permitted in corridors and - here's the kicker - it remains the prerogative of members to place things inside their suites and all members allowed to use suites for their own purposes but not for illegal purposes .
  • (14) Akers missed from 39 yards, but was granted a reprieve when Chykie Brown was penalised for running into the kicker.
  • (15) 2.13am GMT Florida State 3-7 Auburn, 1:15, 1st quarter Oh Auburn, after that great sequence they pick up a dumb, dumb, dumb roughing the kicker penalty on 4th and 9.
  • (16) For a calm executor of a gameplan and a formidably accurate goal-kicker, there is a point where Farrell and his senses part company, usually when defeat or a setback is looming and he cannot control his frustration.
  • (17) A score indicating frequency of using the knee kicker was the only statistically significant predictor of bursitis, whereas the score for kneeling was one of several predictors of knee aspiration and skin infections of the knee.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kicker Matt Prater is unable to tackle Seattle wide receiver Percy Harvin on his way to a touchdown.
  • (19) But at least one kicker is getting it right, Dan Bailey converting from 41 yards to make it Vikings 0-3 Cowboys .
  • (20) And stay for the kicker: Reports that congressmen have been drinking during these, ahem, "deliberations" have gotten a lot of criticism and a lot of attention.

Ricker


Definition:

  • (n.) A stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A brief reminder is given of the antagonism between cellular pathology (Virchow) and the pathology of relation (Ricker), as well as a reference to the American paper on the "Systems of material transport in nerve fibers" by Sidney Ochs.
  • (2) The results are applied to a stochastic two-species Ricker model, and to Chesson's "lottery model with vacant space", to illustrate how the assumptions can be checked in specific models.
  • (3) Pok Pok PDX on Division Street is chef Andy Ricker’s take on Thai street food, and has spawned branches across the city.
  • (4) I began to take things seriously then, researched all I could, even corralled Michelin-starred chef Andy Ricker , the US champion of Lanna (northern Thai) food into having coffee with me.

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