touchback
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Noun (1)
- (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zoneType of football play
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Touch′back′ (tŭch′băk′), noun
Football 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54