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n. Football A place kick in football that starts play at the beginning of a half or after a team has scored.

n. Sports A kick of a stationary ball from the middle of the field in soccer that starts play at the beginning of a half or after a goal has been scored.

n. Sports A similar kick in Rugby.

n. Informal A beginning: the kickoff of a charity campaign.

n. Alternative spelling of kick-off.

n. A kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score.

n. the time at which an event or activity begins.

verb-intransitive. To kick the football from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score.

v. to begin; to commence.

n. The first kick in a game of foot-ball.

v. commence officially

n. a start given to contestants

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

n. the time at which something is supposed to begin

"Holliday also led the Tigers in kickoff returns (22 for a 22.4 average), but junior CB Ron Brooks (13-19. 4) is back."

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