Usually means: Premature initiation of an action.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word false start:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. false start: Merriam-Webster
  2. false start: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. false start: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. false start: Collins English Dictionary
  5. false-start: Wordnik
  6. false start: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. false start: Wiktionary
  8. false start: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. false-start, false start: Dictionary.com
  10. False Start (Love album), False Start (album), False Start (band), False Start (film), False start (disambiguation), False start: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. false-start, false start: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. false start: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. false start: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. False start: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (false start)

noun:  (sports) The act of an athlete starting a race before being signaled to do so.
noun:  (American football) The act of an offensive player moving across the line of scrimmage prior to the snap.
noun:  An attempt at something that does not work, requiring one to start over.

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