kick off
— phrasal verb with kick uk/kɪk/us/kɪk/verb
(START)
C1 If a game of football kicks off, it starts:
What time does the game kick off?
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kick-off
informal to begin:
Indonesia's parliamentary election campaign kicked off at the weekend.
That era was when advertising really kicked off as an industry.
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Football/soccer
- 18-yard box
- 2 3 5
- 4 3 2 1
- 4 4 2
- 4 5 1
- crossbar
- feint
- footballing
- futsal
- game 39
- game ball
- ghost goal
- give-and-go
- relegation
- Roy of the Rovers stuff
- scissor kick
- seal dribble
- shin guard
- shin pad
- stoppage
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Parts & stages of competitions
Starting and beginning
(TROUBLE OR EXCITEMENT)
informal to become full of action and excitement, sometimes including violence:
Chamonix's bars and clubs - lively any night - really kick off at weekends.
But when one of the team slid in to tackle an opponent and knocked him down it "all kicked off ".
informal to start to get angry or complain in a noisy way:
The children started to kick off so I couldn't stay.
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Excitement, interest, energy and enthusiasm
- a new lease of life idiom
- alacrity
- animation
- ardour
- avid
- flap
- frisky
- frisson
- get-up-and-go
- glamour
- gusto
- meaty
- shiver (up and) down your spine idiom
- sparkle
- spice
- spirit
- sprightly
- stimulation
- zap
- zest
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Violent or aggressive
Complaining
Becoming angry and expressing anger
(DIE)
US informal to die
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- deceased
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- strike
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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