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Definition of Kick off
1. Verb. Commence officially.
Specialized synonyms: Swear In, Dedicate
Generic synonyms: Commence, Embark On, Start, Start Up
Derivative terms: Inauguration, Inauguration, Kickoff, Kickoff
Definition of Kick off
1. Verb. To make the first kick in a game or part of a game. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To start; to launch. ¹
3. Verb. (idiomatic colloquial euphemistic) To die or quit permanently. ¹
4. Verb. (idiomatic) To shut down or turn off suddenly. ¹
5. Verb. (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. Used figuratively or literally. ¹
6. Verb. (UK idiomatic colloquial) To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kick Off
Literary usage of Kick off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The game begins by the captains tossing for choice of kick-off or goal. If the
winner of the toss chooses the goal, on account of the direction of wind, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"Choice of Goals—The captains of the respective sides shall toss for the choice
of in-goals or the kick-off. Each side shall play an equal time from each ..."
3. Handbook of Athletic Games for Players, Instructors, and Spectators by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft, William Dean Pulvermacher (1916)
"The two teams toss a coin for choice of kick-off or goals ; that is, ...
The kick-off being made toward the opponent's goal, to choose the kick-off may be ..."
4. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1890)
"(d) Time shall be taken out whenever the game is unnecessarily delayed or while
the ball is being brought out for a try-at-goal, kick- out, or kick-off, ..."
5. That reminds me by Edward Richard Russell (1899)
"CHAPTER XII THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE'S KICK-OFF. " I ^HIS took place lately at a
football match, but I JL think it happened to me to see the Lord Chief ..."
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