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Handoff

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Football The act or an instance of handing the ball to a teammate during a play.

n. Sports The act or an instance of handing a baton to a teammate in a relay race.

n. The act or an instance of passing something or the control of it from one person or agency to another: a handoff of the aircraft from one control tower to another.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative form of hand-off.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A football play in which one player hands the ball to a teammate.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. (American football) a play in which one player hands the ball to a teammate

Word Usage

"I'm not sure if the television folks picked this up or not, but all three of Harris's big runs came off of the same inside handoff from the shotgun formation."

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football play

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