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Place-kicker

Place-kick \Place"-kick`\, v. t. & i. To make a place kick; to make (a goal) by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.

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place-kicker

n. (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal [syn: placekicker]

Usage examples of "place-kicker".

Then the Rifleman substituted in his own place-kicker and let him make the extra point.

Far down at the other end of the field where the defensive unit was working, I could see George Blanda, the Raiders' 46-year-old reserve quarterback and premier place-kicker, working with his own set of handlers and banging one kick after another "through the uprights" -- from the 30 or 35 yard line.