a start; a beginning; the time something begins. A figurative use of a sporting actuality UK, 1875.
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a rough-house fight UK, 2001
idiomkick-offfor a kick-off BrEBrEspoken used to emphasize that you are mentioning the first of several things, especially things that you are complaining about:We're paying the council more and we're getting less - for a kick-off, they're going to charge us a fee for dumping rubbish.Let's look at these forms again - they've got the department's name wrong, for a kick-off.