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kick off

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. inaugurate, kick offverb

    commence officially

GCIDE

  1. kick offverb

    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.

  2. kick offverb

    to begin; to commence; as, they kicked off the rally with a playing of the national anthem.

Wiktionary

  1. kick offverb

    To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.

  2. kick offverb

    To start; to launch.

  3. kick offverb

    To die or quit permanently.

  4. kick offverb

    To shut down or turn off suddenly.

  5. kick offverb

    To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders. Used figuratively or literally.

  6. kick offverb

    To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight.

ChatGPT

  1. kick off

    Kick off typically refers to the start or beginning of an event, activity, or project. It can also refer to the action which begins a game in sports such as football or soccer. Additionally, it's used colloquially to describe the initiation of any process or the inauguration of an idea or plan.

Wikidata

  1. Kick Off

    The Kick Off franchise is a series of football simulation computer games, first released in 1989. Kick Off, the first game of the series, was designed by Dino Dini and released by Anco for the Amiga and the Atari ST in 1989. The game was received well by the games industry at the time and won awards. After the release of Kick Off several sequels were released. Player Manager was released in 1990. The game was the first game to combine a management environment with a football game engine. Kick Off 2 was released in 1990 as a sequel to Kick Off. The game introduced a number of new features as well as several small alterations. In 1992, Dino Dini left Anco and signed a contract for Virgin Games, which released Goal! in 1993. Anco released several further editions of the Kick Off series between 1994 and 1997, but these games had little in common with Kick Off and Kick Off 2. In 2001–2003, the KOA collaborated closely with Anco developer Steve Screech in an attempt to relaunch the Kick Off and Player Manager series. Kick Off 2002 was released. Anco started to work on another sequel Kick Off 2004 which reached beta status. The attempt came to a halt when Anco closed in 2003.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of kick off in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of kick off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of kick off in a Sentence

  1. Sports Illustrated:

    Oh my God, it’s amazing, every single year I’m so humbled to be included in such a huge publication. And every year they just outdo themselves. MJ Day, the editor, understands the need for diversity in media. She was really the one who made the decision many years back to include Ashley Graham on the cover and kick off this movement.

  2. Lincoln Riley:

    The main goal right now is learning how to practice, learning how to do things in a championship manner, learning how to come together as a team, by the time we kick off the first game, this is going to be the most unique roster in the history of the school and one of the most unique rosters in the history of the sport. (There's) a challenge there for us to really bond, so we've got to do that and establish our culture and identity. The other things are important, but that's going to be the most important.

  3. Larry Sabato:

    Why should it always be Iowa and New Hampshire? There are plenty of states with two or three electoral votes that could kick off the process, but it's not going to change.

  4. Ben Rhodes:

    This will kick off, I think, a year of significant attention on the Asia-Pacific, by bringing all of these leaders here to the United States, to Sunnylands, we could both finalize what we want to get done in this last year in office, but also send the message going forward that we do believe there should be this level of engagement with Southeast Asia.

  5. Aaron Clark:

    We're in a bit of a holding pattern until earnings, which kick off with Alcoa tonight, but more importantly the banks will start to report by mid-week, that will be the next key event, which moves the market one way or the other.

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