place kick

1. 1.

   (sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking

   Synonymsplace-kicking

   Broaderkick

   Narrowerfree kickkickoff

   soccer · football

Questions about place kick

What does place kick mean?

place kick means "(sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking".

What is another word for place kick?

Close synonyms include place-kicking. 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 place kick a common word?

place kick 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.