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# How to pronounce "kick starter" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/kɪkkstærtɛr/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **kic·kstar·ter**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (10 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "kick starter" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "So, I started looking into it a little harder. And that's what the bulk of the kick starter money is going to."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 55:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQv3RvvVlxY&t=3310s)

### Example 2
> "So, Tamar was one of the models for Frankly's first ever photo shoot. And the same thing, when we ran a kick starter last fall, that was kind of how we started the business. And the women's channel on our Slack blew up, people were following it all day, we got so many text messages."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 42:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QCIkWbkJH0&t=2536s)

### Example 3
> "Jane Espenson: Yeah it's when we, like the $50 incentive for the Kick starter was the DVD and you start going, "We're charging $50 for a DVD, oh my God!""
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 23:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q_HS3rStWk&t=1409s)

### Example 4
> "The SEC has now made it legal for startups to take up to $2 million in kick starter type"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 42:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vajSK1jV56A&t=2544s)

### Example 5
> "At the beginning they struggled with having enough money to continue but were able to raise over 56 thousand dollars through an online kick starter campaign that they promoted quite"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bynfUels8Zo&t=70s)

### Example 6
> "So, one of the first things that we're doing in just two weeks’ time, is to launch a kick starter campaign, where we'll be directly inviting and bringing the community into that."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 28:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKNTTG-vmo8&t=1738s)

### Example 7
> "Thank you. Dan Barasch: As just one last point, so we, as I mentioned, we're doing the kick starter in just a couple weeks."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 58:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKNTTG-vmo8&t=3533s)

### Example 8
> "Since we went so over, we're gonna try to reward the people who took us above and beyond by working on some additional projects that we can give them basically for no kick starter"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 55:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQv3RvvVlxY&t=3311s)

### Example 9
> "them that one piece that's already fully assembled and tested to then continue on. So you have to understand what you're going to, how you're going to interact, and when you're a kick starter thing or whatever else, people just think they can just throw it over the wall and it'll just happen."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsk3nagSDRU&t=1140s)

### Example 10
> "Especially when he's purposefully looking for people who have not reached the market stage so that you can get cheap evaluation. So if he is only going to make a small bet, can i get a small bet a small amount, for a kick starter. source it, develop the idea further and get a better evaluation."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 31:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwCpcjw_pGA&t=1860s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [kick](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/kick), [starter](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/starter)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "kick starter" correctly?
"kick starter" is pronounced `/kɪkkstærtɛr/`. Syllable breakdown: **kic·kstar·ter**.

### What does "kick starter" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "kick starter" in daily English.

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