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单词 place kick
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Definition of place kick in English:

place kick

noun
American Football Rugby Soccer
  • A kick made after the ball is first placed on the ground.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He stepped up to take the place kick from 40 yards on the left wing.
    • He was spot on with the boot with another two place kicks and a further one-pointer to ensure a berth to the next round.
    • The first half was very evenly balanced with each team relying heavily on place kicks for their score.
    • As a younger man Armstrong was also a capable Australian Rules footballer and particularly adept at the place kick - a technique no longer used in the game.
    • The abandonment of Punchestown on Saturday was a disappointment particularly as the track executive had put so much effort into bringing punters in and getting the place kick started again after all the recent controversy and troubles.
verb
[no object]often as noun place-kickingAmerican Football Rugby Soccer
  • Take a place kick.

    our place-kicking struggled at times last season
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yet all that will be remembered of this performance - more specifically his performance - was that he failed where it mattered most, with his placekicking.
    • He, whose placekicking was exceptional all afternoon, slotted him into a four-point lead with a conversion from the right.
    • He also played in every game on the placekicking unit.
    • Armstrong finished his fifth and final season of varsity eligibility in the fall of 2003 when he handled the punting, placekicking and kickoff duties for the 2-6 Warriors.
    • Two years ago when he went down, the ‘Skins lost three of four games because of shaky placekicking.

Derivatives

  • place-kicker

  • noun
    Soccer American Football Rugby
    • He is in fact the only place-kicker on the NFL's Hall of Fame list.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Espn has started broadcasting tape of how the place-kickers did in pre-game warm-ups.
      • Heather believed she was a good football place-kicker.
      • Mike was a burly guy who played both ways in football as an end at Duke, and earned a spot on the All-Conference team as a receiver and place-kicker.
      • ‘Punters and place-kickers have more pressure than anybody because that might be our last play of the game,’ Aguiar says.
 
 
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