kick off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To start; to launch; to set in motion.
Example Sentences
- "The players kick off for the third quarter and the clock starts."
- "Let's kick off this project with a planning meeting."
- "The project kicked off with an energy-sapping meeting."
- "Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen."
- "On Saturday the group kicked off a weekend of activity ahead of its summer uprising this week, which aims to disrupt five major UK cities and shock people into action against the climate crisis."
- "To kick it all off, there's a street parade through the Todd Mall, followed by a full-day of competitions with a lolly scramble for the kids[.]"
Usage
- Transitive verb
- American usage
- Colloquial
- Intransitive verb
- Slang
- British usage