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☆ touch·back (tuc̸h′bak′)

noun

Football a play in which a player grounds the ball behind the player's own goal line when the ball was caused to pass the goal line by an opponent

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