Usually means: Initiate action or process energetically.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word kick start:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. kick-start, kick start: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. kick-start: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kick-start: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kick-start, kick-start: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kick-start, kick start: Vocabulary.com
  6. Kick-Start, Kick-start, kick-start: Wordnik
  7. kick-start: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. kick-start, kick start: Wiktionary
  9. kick-start: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. kick-start: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. kick-start, kick start: Dictionary.com
  12. Kick Start (TV series), Kick start (disambiguation), Kick start: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. kick-start: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. kick-start, kick start: Free Dictionary
  15. kick-start, kick start: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. kick-start, kick start: Dictionary/thesaurus
  17. kick start: Rhymezone

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

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See kick_starting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (kick start)

noun:  A metal bar on a motorcycle used to start its engine.
noun:  An act of starting a motorcycle by quickly depressing the kick start with one's foot.
noun:  (figuratively) A fast or strong start; help with starting or beginning well.
noun:  An impetus that starts or restarts some process.
verb:  (transitive) To start a motorcycle.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To start or begin strongly or quickly.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To make (something) active, functional, or productive again; to reinvigorate (an activity, system, or process).

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