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TOUCHLINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does touchline mean?
• TOUCHLINE (noun)
The noun TOUCHLINE has 1 sense:
1. either of the sidelines in soccer or rugby
Familiarity information: TOUCHLINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Either of the sidelines in soccer or rugby
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("touchline" is a kind of...):
out of bounds; sideline (a line that marks the side boundary of a playing field)
Context examples
There’s Moorhouse, first reserve, but he is trained as a half, and he always edges right in on to the scrum instead of keeping out on the touchline.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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