KICKOFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kickoff mean? 

• KICKOFF (noun)
  The noun KICKOFF has 3 senses:

1. (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score

2. the time at which something is supposed to begin

3. a start given to contestants

  Familiarity information: KICKOFF used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KICKOFF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("kickoff" is a kind of...):

place-kicking; place kick ((sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking)

beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)

Domain category:

football; football game (any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The time at which something is supposed to begin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

beginning; commencement; first; get-go; kickoff; offset; outset; showtime; start; starting time

Context example:

she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her

Hypernyms ("kickoff" is a kind of...):

point; point in time (an instant of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kickoff"):

birth (the time when something begins (especially life))

incipience; incipiency (beginning to exist or to be apparent)

starting point; terminus a quo (earliest limiting point)

threshold (the starting point for a new state or experience)

Derivation:

kick off (commence officially)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A start given to contestants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

kickoff; send-off; start-off

Context example:

I was there with my parents at the kickoff

Hypernyms ("kickoff" is a kind of...):

start (the beginning of anything)

Derivation:

kick off (commence officially)