kick off phrasal verb ( see also ↑ kick )
1 . if a meeting, event, or a football game kicks off, it starts:
What time does the laser show kick off?
The match kicks off at noon.
kick off with
The series kicked off with an interview with Brando.
2 . informal if you kick off a discussion, meeting, event etc, you start it:
OK Marion, would you care to kick off?
kick something ↔ off (with something)
I’m going to kick off today’s meeting with a few remarks about the budget.
3 . kick somebody off something informal to remove someone from a team or group:
Joe was kicked off the committee for stealing funds.
4 . American English informal to die
5 . British English spoken if a fight kicks off, people start fighting:
I think it might kick off in here with all these football fans around.