touchback
IPA: tˈʌtʃbæk
noun
- (American football) The result of a play (usually a kickoff or punt) in which the ball passes out the back of the end zone or a team otherwise gains possession of the ball in their own end zone.
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Examples of "touchback" in Sentences
- The Giants recovered the football for a touchback.
- The ball then rolled out of bounds for a touchback.
- In the Canadian game the term touchback is not used.
- DOBBS: You have what's called a touchback provision.
- A touchback is when the ball is downed in the end zone.
- But the play was ruled a muff, and therefore a touchback.
- The Vipers go 3 and out and the punt results in a touchback.
- Justin Brantly's punt went into the end zone for a touchback.
- Virginia Tech's kickoff was downed in the end zone for a touchback.
- A touchback also occurs when the kick goes out of bounds in the end zone.
- Vanderbilt kicked off the game, with the kickoff resulting in a touchback.
- A touchback is when you down the ball inside your own endzone when you are a returner or defender.
- Step two, sometime within eight years, heads of households would have to go back to their home country, something called the touchback provision.
- It included high fines, a pointless, punitive "touchback" requirement and new restrictions on family unification, among other problematic provisions.
- A touchback is when the other team punts or kicks it into your endzone and you choose to take the ball on the twenty yard line rather than attempt a return.
- They would then, at some point, have to leave the United States, what's known as a touchback program, return to their country of origin, to reapply for a visa.
- * The Colts a strong drive to open the second half and get it after the touchback, which is a good thing considering two returns had already failed to reach the 20.
- There's huge financial penalties, compared to the incomes of most of these folks, and then they have the so-called touchback provision, which means that they've got to go back to the country that they came from in order to apply.
- It's got this so-called touchback which is really just -- there's sort of a sham little way of going it, but it rewards those who are illegally here and says that America is no longer going to enforce its immigration policies with the fact that we're not going to allow people to have citizenship.
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