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touchback

Pronunciation:  'tuch`bak

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 Definition: [n]  (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone
 
 See Also: football play

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Touch"back`\, n. (G)
The act of touching the football down by a player behind his
own goal line when it received its last impulse from an
opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.

 

 

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