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- noun soccer the opening
kick of each half of a game offootball . - noun by extension the opening sequence of any event
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Examples
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The main rally will kick-off at 11.30am and end at 6.30pm local Kenyan time.
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Alcoa fell 0.4% ahead of Monday's earnings report, the unofficial kick-off of the first quarter corporate filings season.
Miners Drive Europe's Gains Aude Lagorce 2011
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During prime time's first hour Tuesday, Abdul's new show bested the kick-off of The Biggest Loser: Couples, which posted an all-time series low for a midseason premiere with a 3.3 overall rating among 18-to-49-year-olds — down 28 percent from January a year ago.
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Bale stood on the centre-circle an hour before kick-off, soaking in the energy of this prim, erect stadium, which lacks the crazy passion of Camp Nou but intimidates with its hauteur.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale sum up gap between Real and Spurs | Paul Hayward 2011
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It was all part of the madness which was the kick-off for Chinese Whisperings 2010 anthology.
Jodi’s Anti-Resolutions for the ’10 Creative Year « Write Anything 2010
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It will also be announce the widely anticipated kick-off event, Small Steps, Great Leaps, which will be held on Sunday, May 16th at the Riverside Church.
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All the while he remained diffident off the field until the kick-off transformed him.
Mark Hughes is unconvincing Judas despite Joorabchian's wound-poking | Rob Bagchi 2011
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All the while he remained diffident off the field until the kick-off transformed him.
Mark Hughes is unconvincing Judas despite Joorabchian's wound-poking | Rob Bagchi 2011
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The jazz festival kick-off event is scheduled for Monday, June 21 with a New Orleans-style second line music and dance performance that will grace three New York City neighborhoods — Hudson Square (Soho), Lincoln Square (upper West Side) and Harlem — as part of the Make Music New York Festival.
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When Aaron Lennon dropped out minutes before the kick-off, Redknapp switched Bale to the right to disrupt the Ronaldo-Marcelo partnership, with Luka Modric shunted to the left, which meant both Tottenham's best players started out of position.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale sum up gap between Real and Spurs | Paul Hayward 2011
travismcdermott commented on the word kick-off
1857 HUGHES Tom Brown I. v, Hasn't old Brook won the toss..and got choice of goals and kick-off?
June 8, 2008