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KICKOFF
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("kickoff" is a kind of...):
place-kicking; place kick ((sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking)
beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)
Domain category:
football; football game (any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A start given to contestants
Example:
I was there with my parents at the kickoff
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("kickoff" is a kind of...):
start (the beginning of anything)
Derivation:
kick off (commence officially)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The time at which something is supposed to begin
Example:
she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her
Synonyms:
beginning; commencement; first; get-go; kickoff; offset; outset; showtime; start; starting time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("kickoff" is a kind of...):
point; point in time (an instant of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kickoff"):
birth (the time when something begins (especially life))
incipience; incipiency (beginning to exist or to be apparent)
starting point; terminus a quo (earliest limiting point)
threshold (the starting point for a new state or experience)
Derivation:
kick off (commence officially)
