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Verb: kick in
  1. Enter a particular state
    "After a few moments, the effects of the drug kicked in";
    - set in
     
  2. Provide a part of a whole amount; give towards some cause
    - contribute, give, chip in [informal]
     
  3. Open violently
    "kick in the doors";
    - kick down

Derived forms: kicks in, kicked in, kicking in

See also: kick

Type of: begin, destroy, give, ruin, start

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kibosh
Kichaga
Kichaga language
Kichai
kick
kick about
kick around
kick back
kick down
kick downstairs
kick in
kick in the butt
kick off
kick one's heels
kick out
kick pleat
kick start
kick starter
kick the bucket
kick turn
kick up