touchback

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Noun

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touch=back

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun touchback has 1 sense

touchback(n = noun.act) - (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone;

is a kind of

football play

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CIDE DICTIONARY

touchback, n.

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. [1913 Webster]