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PLACE-KICKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does place-kicking mean? 

PLACE-KICKING (noun)
  The noun PLACE-KICKING has 1 sense:

1. (sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kickingplay

  Familiarity information: PLACE-KICKING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLACE-KICKING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

place-kicking; place kick

Hypernyms ("place-kicking" is a kind of...):

boot; kick; kicking (the act of delivering a blow with the foot)

Domain category:

football; football game (any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal)

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 "place-kicking"):

free kick ((soccer) a place kick that is allowed for a foul or infringement by the other team)

kickoff ((football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score)

Derivation:

place-kick (score (a goal) by making a place kick)

place-kick (kick (a ball) from a stationary position, in football)


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