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Place-kick   /pleɪs-kɪk/   Listen
Place-kick

verb
1.
Kick (a ball) from a stationary position, in football.
2.
Score (a goal) by making a place kick.



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"Place-kick" Quotes from Famous Books



... the middle of the field," groaned Blair, "a place-kick would tie the score. How much ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... corner. It seemed to me that this was the only thing he did during the whole game, and it was my fault that he got the try, for I went for him a second too late and he fell over the line, but the place-kick went crooked, and we won by a goal to ...
— Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate • Charles Turley
... very trim and dangerous in their black and white uniform; and when presently their captain led off with a magnificent place-kick which flew almost into the School lines, Classics and Moderns forgot their differences and squirmed with a common foreboding. Fullerton promptly returned the ball into medias res, and the usual inaugural scrimmage ensued. To the knowing ones, who judged ...
— The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed


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