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PLACE-KICKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does place-kicker mean?
• PLACE-KICKER (noun)
The noun PLACE-KICKER has 1 sense:
1. (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal
Familiarity information: PLACE-KICKER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
place-kicker; placekicker
Hypernyms ("place-kicker" is a kind of...):
kicker (a player who kicks the football)
Domain category:
football; football game (any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal)
Derivation:
place-kick (kick (a ball) from a stationary position, in football)
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