kickoff
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(noun) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score |
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Related Words: beginning, commencement, place kick, place-kicking, start |
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(noun) a start given to contestants; "I was there with my parents at the kickoff" |
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Synonyms: send-off, start-off |
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Related Words: start |
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(noun) the time at which something begins; "They got an early start" |
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Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, offset, outset, start, starting time |
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Related Words: birth, incipience, incipiency, point, point in time, starting point, terminus a quo, threshold |
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