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tap-tackle en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A tackle made from behind the running ball-carrier, where the tackler dives to touch the player's ankle and trips him up.
    • France's own stand-in stand-off Trinh-Duc missed with a drop-goal when well set but then set off on a curving run through a scattered defensive line which carried him deep into enemy territory until Weepu's desperate tap-tackle finally brought him down. 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:

Forms

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tap-tackles Number=Plur lexicographic
tap tackle alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

ankle tap

tap-tackle en · VERB

Meanings

  1. to tackle with a tap-tackle
    • Farrell drilled home a 46-metre penalty and should have had another when Pollard, attempting to jink his way out of defence, was tap-tackled by Anthony Watson and penalised for not releasing. 2019 November 2, Robert Kitson, “Rugby World Cup: South Africa surge to glory as England fall short”, in The Observer:

Forms

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tap-tackles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
tap-tackling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tap-tackled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tap-tackled Tense=Past lexicographic
tap tackle alternative lexicographic