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Kick off   /kɪk ɔf/   Listen
verb
kick off  v. t.  To begin; to commence; as, they kicked off the rally with a playing of the national anthem.
Synonyms: begin, commence, start.



kick off  v. i.  (Football) To kick the football from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score; as, they kicked off at two o'clock.






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"Kick off" Quotes from Famous Books



... this explanation; from long repetition, he had it quite by heart. Possibly that was why he did not wait for its conclusion, but tramped stolidly away to his bedroom, where he had begun to kick off his shoes by the time his sister-in-law reached ...
— Meadow Grass - Tales of New England Life • Alice Brown

... Peter led the way down across the Green Meadows while the little Stars looked down and twinkled in the most friendly way, and just as jolly, round, red Mr. Sun started to kick off his bedclothes behind the Purple Hills they reached the ...
— Mrs. Peter Rabbit • Thornton W. Burgess

... afraid of a life-line hurting my waist," was the prompt answer, "and neither is Sukie—are you Sukie? Go on deck, captain, and Sukie and I and Mina" (the servant) "will just kick off ...
— By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories • Louis Becke

... of January he was asked to "kick off" at a "soccer" match to be held in Marlehouse. This was rather an event, as two important teams from a distance were for some reason or other to play there. The Marlehouse folk played "Rugger" as a rule, but this match was regarded in the light of ...
— The Ffolliots of Redmarley • L. Allen Harker

... to get out of bed and to place his back against the wall, and there he cowered until he heard his brother's body threshing about the floor. As a matter of fact, that shot had sent Frank sprawling from his bunk, and he was striving to kick off the hampering folds of his sleeping-bag, nothing more; but the thumping of his knees and elbows bore a dreadful significance to the terrified listener. Evidently the Thing had closed in—had grappled with Frank. ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach



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