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kick off

Main Entry: kick off

Function: verb

Date: 1857

intransitive verb

1 : to start or resume play in football by a placekick
2 a : to initiate proceedings b : to start out : begin <the movie kicks off with a bank robbery>
3 slang : dietransitive verb : to mark the beginning of <kick off the campaign>

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