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Start of game
Answer for the clue "Start of game ", 8 letters:
kick-off
Word definitions for kick-off in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also kickoff , kick off , 1857, "first kick in a football match," from kick (v.) + off . Figurative sense of "start, beginning event" is from 1875.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context football English) the opening kick of each half of a game of football.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A kick-off is the method of starting and, in some cases, restarting play in a game of association football . The rules concerning the kick-off are part of Law 8 of the Laws of the Game .
Usage examples of kick-off.
Most fans I have talked to argue that drink hasn’t ever had a very large influence on the domestic violence (there has been trouble even at games with morning kick-offs, a scheme designed to stop people going to the pub before the match).
The hooligans would be on the rampage hours before kick-off time and with the police being foolish enough to allow these demonstrations to go ahead there could be all kinds of trouble.