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kickstarter

kickstarter is the alternative form of kick-starter.

Meaning of kick-starter

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.

Forms of kickstarter

pluralkickstarters

Questions about kickstarter

What is kickstarter the alternative form of?
Kickstarter is the alternative form of kick-starter.

Words near kickstarter in the dictionary

  1. kicksorters
  2. kickstand
  3. kickstands
  4. kickstart
  5. kickstarted
  6. kickstarter
  7. kickstarters
  8. kickstarting
  9. kickstarts
  10. kickstep
  11. kickstepped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kickstarter (page history and authors); 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.

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