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Start of a game
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kickoff
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
kickoff \kickoff\ n. (Football) A kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score. the time at which an event or activity begins. Syn: beginning, commencement, first, outset, start, starting time, offset.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her" [syn: beginning ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A kickoff is a method of starting a drive in American football and Canadian football . Typically, a kickoff consists of one team – the "kicking team" – kicking the ball to the opposing team – the "receiving team". The receiving team is then entitled to ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of kick-off English)
Usage examples of kickoff.
Starting about three hours before kickoff, our street begins to be clogged with parked cars and RVs driven by midwesterners in various states of happy pre-inebriation, and when I rake the leaves in my back yard I hear the tidal clamor of the crowd in the distance, half a mile away.
Entering the first of the long back straights, her kickoff had seemed to go wrong.
The media wasn't necessarily interested in the Virginia Economic Development Section of the Forbes magazine CEO kickoff banquet going on inside.
The official kickoff event for the annual Rose Festival, the parade features lighted floats and marching bands and starts at dusk, moving through downtown in the dark.