Definitions for drop-kick

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Spelling: [drop-kik]
IPA: /ˈdrɒpˈkɪk/

Drop-Kick is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in drop-kick (-cdikkopr).

Definitions for drop-kick

noun

  1. a kick made by dropping a football to the ground and kicking it as it starts to bounce up. Compare place kick, punt1 (def 1).

verb (used with object)

  1. to score (a field goal or point after touchdown) by a drop kick.
  2. to kick (the ball as dropped for a drop kick).

verb (used without object)

  1. to make a drop kick.

Origin of drop-kick

First recorded in 1870-75

Examples for drop-kick

The free kick may be either a punt, a drop-kick or a kick from placement.

And how you must have suffered, knowing he could drop-kick, and yet not desiring to betray him!

The first time Raleigh held firm, but the second time Slade stepped back for a drop-kick.

Not only could Bunny punt far and away better than the other candidates, but he could drop-kick almost as well.

There was perhaps one chance in three of making a goal from placement; a drop-kick was out of the question.

When you go out, the Bannister rooters, and your Yale friends, will believe it is to try a drop-kick and tie the score.

A drop-kick is made by letting the ball fall from the hands, and kicking it at the very instant it rises.

If she got within the Blue's thirty-yard line she was to let Rollins try a drop-kick.

Hence, the splinter-Senior was reluctant to announce that he could drop-kick.

Word Value for drop-kick
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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