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touch football

an informal variety of football in which a defensive player stops a play by touching the ballcarrier (usually with both hands) rather than by tackling

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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