place-kicker

1. 1.

   (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal

   Synonymsplacekicker

   Broaderkicker

   football

Questions about place-kicker

What does place-kicker mean?

place-kicker means "(football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal".

How many syllables are in place-kicker?

place-kicker has 4 syllables: pla-ce--kic-ker. The stress falls on "ce-".

What is another word for place-kicker?

Close synonyms include placekicker. 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-kicker a common word?

place-kicker 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.