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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kick-off

also kickoff, kick off, 1857, "first kick in a football match," from kick (v.) + off. Figurative sense of "start, beginning event" is from 1875.

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kick-off

n. (context football English) the opening kick of each half of a game of football.

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Kick-off

Kickoff or kick-off may refer to

  • Kick-off (association football)
  • Kickoff (gridiron football)
  • Kick Off (series), a series of computer association football games
  • Kick-Off, a toy in the Action Masters series of Transformers toy franchise
  • Kickoff meeting
Kick-off (association football)

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.