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FREE KICK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does free kick mean?
• FREE KICK (noun)
The noun FREE KICK has 1 sense:
1. (soccer) a place kick that is allowed for a foul or infringement by the other team
Familiarity information: FREE KICK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(soccer) a place kick that is allowed for a foul or infringement by the other team
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("free kick" is a kind of...):
place-kicking; place kick ((sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking)
Domain category:
association football; soccer (a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "free kick"):
corner kick (a free kick from the corner awarded to the other side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line)
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