kick off
phrasal verbkick off
- when a football (soccer) game or a team, etc. kicks off, the game starts related noun kick-off synonyms at startTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
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- to suddenly become angry or violentTopics Feelingsc2
kick off (with something)
- (informal) to start
- What time shall we kick off?
- And then it all kicked off.
- Tom will kick off with a few comments.
kick something off
- to remove something by kicking
- They dropped their bags in the front hall and kicked off their shoes.
kick off something
- (informal) to start a discussion, a meeting, an event, etc. synonym open
- Who is going to kick off the discussion?