place-kickn.
/ˈpleɪskɪk/, U.S. /ˈpleɪsˌkɪk/ Football.
1. Chiefly Rugby and American Football. A kick made after the ball has been first placed on the ground. Cf. drop-kick n.
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1845 W. D. Arnold et al. Football Rules of Rugby School in J. Smith Orig. Rules Rugby (2007) 46 Kick out must not be from more than ten yards out of goal if a place-kick.
1872 Times 6 Feb. 5/5 After a very long maul,..he succeeded in touching it down, the matter ending in Isherwood's kicking a goal for England with a splendidly directed place kick.
1876 Rules in P. H. Davis Football (1911) 461 A place kick, or place, is made by kicking the ball after it has been placed in a nick made in the ground for the purpose of keeping it at rest.
1938 L. MacNeice Earth Compels 60 The effortless place-kick Gaily carving the goalposts.
1969 Official Playing Rules Nat. & Amer. Football Leagues 7 A Field Goal is made by kicking ball from field of play through the plane of opponents goal by a drop-kick or a place-kick either during a play from scrimmage..or a free kick after fair catch.
1994 Official Playing Rules & Regulations Canad. Football League 27 A place kick is made by kicking the ball after it has been placed on the ground and held by a Team A player.
2. Rugby. A place-kicker. Now rare.
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1896 T. Eyton Rugby Football 12 ‘Mac’ was the place-kick of the Team.
1905 A. Conan Doyle Return Sherlock Holmes 310 He's a fine place-kick, it's true, but..he has no judgment.
1928 Observer 1 Jan. 23/1 He is still a good, sound forward and, at times, a safe place-kick.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
place-kickv.
/ˈpleɪskɪk/, U.S. /ˈpleɪsˌkɪk/ Chiefly Rugby and American Football.
1. transitive. To kick (a ball) from a carefully placed position on the ground; to score (a goal) from a place-kick.
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1845 W. D. Arnold et al. Football Rules of Rugby School in J. Reason & C. James World of Rugby (1979) i. 13 The ball must be place kicked and not dropped.
1856 Rules for Football, St. Peter's School, York ix It [sc. the football] is to be place-kicked, and not dropped.
1911 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 4 Nov. 3 Two plays through right tackle brought the ball seven yards nearer and Morrell, dropping back, place-kicked a goal.
1989 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 4 Nov. Each of the players will be required to punt and place kick a ball as far and as high as possible.
1998 Daily News (New Plymouth, N.Z.) (Nexis) 26 Oct. He has not place-kicked a goal since his schooldays.
2. intransitive. To take a place-kick.
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1862 Laws of Football 8 The player who is to place-kick goes just out of the reach of the opposite side.
1947 Life 17 Nov. 65/2 Now almost every college has a player who is especially trained to place-kick.
1972 J. Mosedale Football iv. 46 Waterfield could..pass, run, punt, place-kick..and play defense.
2003 Observer (Nexis) 15 June (Sport section) 2 Jonny Wilkinson..place-kicked like a dream.
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