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start off en · VERB

Meanings

1. To begin.
   • She started off with a lullaby.
2. To set out on a trip.
   • I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
   • They started off on horseback.
3. To instigate someone to laugh or cry or to begin talking about something they often talk about.
   • Don't start him off about that again.

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Deriveds

to start off with · start off on the wrong foot · start off on the right foot