kick start
Noun
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Noun
kick start
- A metal bar on a motorcycle used to start its engine.
- An act of starting a motorcycle by quickly depressing the kick start with one's foot.
- The motorcycle requires a kick start.
- (figuratively) A fast or strong start; help with starting or beginning well.
- As a kick start for the group, let's write up some ideas.
- An impetus that starts or restarts some process.
- French: démarreur au pied, pédale de mise en marche
- German: Kickstarter
- Italian: impianto di avviamento
- Spanish: pedal de arranque
- French: démarrage au kick
- French: début en beauté, démarrage du bon pied
- French: coup de fouet, relance
kick start (kick starts, present participle kick starting; past and past participle kick started)
- (transitive) To start a motorcycle.
- He kick started the motorcycle and took off.
- (transitive, figurative) To start or begin strongly or quickly.
- To kick start your learning, let's summarize the basics.
- Kick start your day with a hearty breakfast.
- (transitive, figurative) To make (something) active, functional, or productive again; to reinvigorate (an activity, system, or process).
- Synonyms: reinvigorate, revitalize, jump-start
- To kick start the economy with a large construction project.
- French: démarrer au kick
- French: démarrer en beauté (la journée), démarrer du bon pied (la journée), bien commencer (la journée), commencer en beauté, lancer, stimuler la conduite de (études), déclencher, entamer
- French: relancer
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