kick start

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• A fast or strong start; help with starting or beginning well.
• An impetus that starts or restarts some process.

Verb

• To start a motorcycle.
• To start or begin strongly or quickly.
• To make (something) active, functional, or productive again; to reinvigorate (an activity, system, or process).

Origin

• kick + start