Usually means: Start or initiate an event.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word kick off:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. kick off: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. kick off, kick off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kick-off, kick-off, kick off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. kick off: Vocabulary.com
  5. Kick-Off, Kick-off, kick-off: Wordnik
  6. kick-off, kick (sth) off, kick off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. kick-off, kick off: Wiktionary
  8. kick-off, kick off: Dictionary.com
  9. Kick Off (album), Kick Off (magazine), Kick Off (series), Kick Off (video game), Kick-off, Kick-off (association football): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. kick off: Rhymezone
  11. kick-off: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. kick off: Free Dictionary
  13. kick off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. kick-off, kick off: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kick off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kick off: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kick off: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kick off: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. kick off, kick off, kick off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. kick off: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. kick off: ESL Slang page
  4. kick off: Urban Dictionary
  5. Kick off: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Kick off: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (kick off)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic) To start; to launch; to set in motion.
verb:  (transitive) To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
verb:  (intransitive, US, idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic) To die or quit permanently.
verb:  (intransitive, US, idiomatic) To shut down or turn off suddenly.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To suddenly become more active.
verb:  (transitive, US, idiomatic, ranching, slang) To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders, whether by literally kicking it away or another method.
verb:  (intransitive, UK, idiomatic, colloquial) To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight; to behave aggressively.
verb:  (intransitive, UK, idiomatic, colloquial, impersonal) To have a fight or argument start; to fight or argue.

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