kick-start
verb
kick-started; kick-starting; kick-starts
1
: to start (something, such as a motorcycle) by means of a kick-starter
kick start
noun
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Pop Mart kick-started its global expansion following a 676 million listing in Hong Kong in 2020.
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Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
According to Babson College’s Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, over two-thirds of entrepreneurs cite job scarcity as a motive for starting a business, showing that founders use periods of volatility as a catalyst for kick-starting their ideas.
—Anna Horndahl, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
That distribution of elements hints at both types of patches forming from organic carbon reacting with iron and sulfate minerals—a process that, on Earth, is typically kick-started by certain types of microbes to fuel their metabolism.
—Humberto Basilio, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2025
That was what kick-started their annual tradition of renewing their vows, according to the TV personality.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 2 Sep. 2025
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Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
According to Babson College’s Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, over two-thirds of entrepreneurs cite job scarcity as a motive for starting a business, showing that founders use periods of volatility as a catalyst for kick-starting their ideas.
—Anna Horndahl, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
That distribution of elements hints at both types of patches forming from organic carbon reacting with iron and sulfate minerals—a process that, on Earth, is typically kick-started by certain types of microbes to fuel their metabolism.
—Humberto Basilio, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2025
That was what kick-started their annual tradition of renewing their vows, according to the TV personality.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Kick-start.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kick-start. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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