POINT AFTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does point after mean? 

• POINT AFTER (noun)
  The noun POINT AFTER has 1 sense:

1. in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown

  Familiarity information: POINT AFTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POINT AFTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

extra point; point after; point after touchdown

Hypernyms ("point after" is a kind of...):

conversion (a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown)

point (the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest)

Domain category:

American football; American football game (a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays)

 Context examples 

The unusual position of the planet implies that at some point after the host star became a white dwarf, the planet moved closer to it.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

The man early discovered White Fang's susceptibility to laughter, and made it a point after painfully tricking him, to laugh at him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)