Throw-in Definition

thrōĭn
throwin
noun
A play used to restart play in soccer after the ball has gone over the touchline, in which a player on the team not responsible for putting the ball out of bounds flings the ball with both hands over the head back onto the field.
American Heritage

(Ireland) The start time of a Gaelic football match, comparable to kick off in other games.

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Alternative form of throw-in.

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verb

(idiomatic) To add something extra free of charge.

If you take the large size, we'll throw in a set of tea towels.
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Other Word Forms of Throw-in

Noun

Singular:
throw-in
Plural:
throw-ins

Throw-in Sentence Examples

  • I didn't bring my hat to throw in the door.

  • The emigres then began to throw in their lot with the Vendeans.

  • Anticipating the order of chronology slightly, it may be mentioned here that in 1873 Prince Edward Island (q.v.), which had in 1865 decisively rejected proposals of the Quebec conference and had in the following year repeated its rejection of federation by a resolution of the legislature affirming that no terms Canada could offer would be acceptable, now decided to throw in its lot with the Dominion.

  • Every effort was made by the English to prevent the Dutch from joining the league, and in this they were assisted by the stadholder, but at last the States-General, though only by the bare majority of four provinces against three, determined to throw in their lot with the opponents of England.

  • In this idea he had the support of more than one of his corps commanders, but Cadorna thought, and it is difficult to meet his reasoning, that he could not throw in the forces necessary for such an attack when he was uncertain as to the direction of the forthcoming blow.

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