kick off
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kick off (third-person singular simple present kicks off, present participle kicking off, simple past and past participle kicked off)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
- The players kick off for the third quarter and the clock starts.
- (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic) To start; to launch.
- Synonym: start off
- Coordinate term: set off
- Let's kick off this project with a planning meeting.
- The project kicked off with an energy-sapping meeting.
- 2013 August 19, Louise Taylor, “English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen.
- 2019 July 13, Nosheen Iqbal, “Extinction Rebellion kick off weekend of protest with Dalston blockade”, in The Observer[2]:
- On Saturday the group kicked off a weekend of activity ahead of its summer uprising this week, which aims to disrupt five major UK cities and shock people into action against the climate crisis.
- 2022 August 1, Off the Leash, Darwin, NT, page 6, column 1:
- To kick it all off, there's a street parade through the Todd Mall, followed by a full-day of competitions with a lolly scramble for the kids[.]
- (transitive) To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
- Coordinate term: kick out
- I got kicked off the team after a string of poor performances
- (intransitive, US, idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic) To die or quit permanently.
- It's a wonder that old dog hasn't kicked off yet.
- (intransitive, US, idiomatic) To shut down or turn off suddenly.
- The washer was working fine until it kicked off in the middle of a cycle.
- The circuit breaker, a power failure, and the e-stop button are the only things we can think of that might have caused that pump to kick off when it did.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To suddenly become more active.
- Coordinate term: flare up
- The party kicked off when the third bottle of wine was opened.
- 2007, Robert Ortiz, A Walking Distance, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 177:
- I understood that I was missing out on a lot of his life and if the war really kicked off I was going to be gone for an even longer amount of time.
- (transitive, US, idiomatic, ranching, slang) To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders, whether by literally kicking it away or another method.
- A week after we kicked off her calf that cow was still bawling.
- (intransitive, UK, idiomatic, colloquial) To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight.
- When she called him a drunk, it was the last straw. He just kicked off.
- (intransitive, UK, idiomatic, colloquial, impersonal) To have a fight or argument start.
- It really kicked off in town when the team lost.
- 2010, Kenny Sansom, To Cap It All, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:
- Suddenly it all kicked off on the terraces as horrendous violence and disgraceful scenes were picked up by television cameras.
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to shut down suddenly
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to suddenly become more active