dropkick

1. 1.

   make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick

   Synonymsdrop-kick

   Broaderkick

   football

2. 2.

   drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal

   Synonymsdrop-kick

   Broaderkick

   football

1. 1.

   (football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground

   Broaderkick

   football

Other forms of dropkick

plural

dropkicks·

past tense

dropkicked·

present participle

dropkicking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dropkick

What does dropkick mean?

dropkick means "make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dropkick?

dropkick has 2 syllables: drop-kick. The stress falls on "kick".

What is another word for dropkick?

Close synonyms include drop-kick, drop-kick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dropkick a common word?

dropkick is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.