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kick off verb- to begin; to get going AUSTRALIA, 1924
- Global Friday kicks off at 9.30pm, tickets $45 on 252 3000. — Sydney City Hub, p. 9, 4 April 1996
- [We] had a bit of a groove [dance] when it starts kicking off. — Ben Malbon, Cool Places, p. 272, 1998
- It was Ged that kicked the whole thing off. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 1, 2001
- to sleep off the effects of an illegal drug US, 1951
- — American Speech, p. 27, February 1952: “Teen-age hophead jargon”
- to die US, 1908
- The officers on the scene first aren’t talking so it’s my guess again that he talked before he kicked off. — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 23, 1963
- to make a fuss, to raise an objection UK
- I was surprised they didn’t kick off–they really were quite lenient. — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 19, 2000
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