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kickoff

DEFINITIONS OF: kickoff

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n (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score

Type of:
place kick, place-kicking
(sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking
beginning, commencement, start
the act of starting something

n a start given to contestants

“I was there with my parents at the kickoff”
Synonyms:
send-off, start-off
Type of:
start
the beginning of anything

n the time at which something is supposed to begin

Synonyms:
beginning, commencement, first, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time
Antonyms:
middle
time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period
end, ending
the point in time at which something ends
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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
cradle
birth of a person
Type of:
point, point in time
an instant of time
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