Definitions for touch-and-go

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Spelling: [tuhch-uh n-goh]

IPA: /ˈtʌtʃ ənˈgoʊ/

Touch-And-Go is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 431 anagrams from letters in touch-and-go (--acdghnootu).

Definitions for touch-and-go

noun

1. a precarious or delicate state of affairs:
2. quick action or movement:

adjective

1. risky; precarious:
2. hasty, sketchy, or desultory.

Origin of touch-and-go

First recorded in 1805-15

Examples for touch-and-go

It had been only touch-and-go, but the man's warm Irish heart had saved him.

But it was no joking matter with, me either, my dear fellow; it was touch-and-go at the time.

START ratification is touch-and-go, too, since, being a treaty, it requires a two-thirds majority to pass.

It was touch-and-go with me all the time from the soup down, I assure you.'

"It's been touch-and-go as it is," he murmured, pressing his hand against his side.

It is a touch-and-go affair; the stimulus presses the button and then subsides, while the neural organization does the rest.

Facts showed that our belief was right, though it was a touch-and-go chance.

He managed to elude his fellow-countrymen as it happened, but it was "touch-and-go" with him.

These touch-and-go experiments form no part of the strict duties of the chulo; his exclusive province is the banderilla.

I have here a passage from the diary, where it seems to have been touch-and-go.