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corner kick

Soccer a free, or unhindered, kick by which an offensive player puts the ball in play from the corner of the field (corner area) after a defensive player has caused the ball to cross his own goal line, not between the goal posts

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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