touch football

noun

an informal variety of football in which the touching, usually with both hands, of a ball-carrier by a member of the opposing team results in a down.

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Origin:
1930–35

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touch football

—n
	an informal version of American football chiefly characterized by players being touched rather than tackled

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"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

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