Word.ws English Dictionary

kick-starter

kick-starter noun: synonym of kick start (“bar used to start a motorcycle engine”).

Noun

kick-starter (plural kick-starters)

  1. Synonym of kick start (“bar used to start a motorcycle engine”).
    Synonyms:
    kick start
  2. Something that kick starts.
    • This book serves as a kick-starter for those who care deeply about tackling poverty but don’t know where to start.

Synonyms of kick-starter

Forms of kick-starter

pluralkick-starters

Questions about kick-starter

What does kick-starter mean?
Kick-starter means synonym of kick start (“bar used to start a motorcycle engine”).
What part of speech is kick-starter?
Kick-starter is a noun.
What is the plural of kick-starter?
The plural of kick-starter is kick-starters.

Words near kick-starter in the dictionary

  1. kick-out
  2. kick-pleated
  3. kick-sled
  4. kick-start
  5. kick-started
  6. kick-starter
  7. kick-starters
  8. kick-starting
  9. kick-starts
  10. kick-step
  11. kick-stepped

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kick-starter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “kick-starter.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kick-starter. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.