coffin corner

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noun

Football. a corner of the field inside the ten-yard line, especially as the target of a punt intended to go out of bounds in this area and so put the receiving team in a position near its goal line.

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Origin of coffin corner

First recorded in 1940–45

Words nearby coffin corner

cofferdam, coffered, Coffeyville, coffin, coffin bone, coffin corner, coffinite, coffin nail, coffle, Coff's Harbour, C of I

How to use coffin corner in a sentence

So I drove around the corner to the trailhead of the logging road that led back to the crash site.
The 7-Year-Old Plane Crash Survivor’s Brutal Journey Through the Woods|James Higdon|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The family was taking some private moments for a closing of the coffin in keeping with Chinese ritual.
Funeral Protest Is Too Much for NYPD Union Boss|Michael Daly|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But on Tuesday, we saw another nail hammered into the already pretty tightly nailed down coffin of the two-state solution.
In the Middle East, the Two-State Solution Is Dead|Dean Obeidallah|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But they do put it right around the corner near the time the video was shot.
The Monsters Who Screamed for Dead Cops|Jacob Siegel|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

They work in a world filled with a sense—real or imagined—of danger lurking around each corner and every hallway.
Any Outrage Out There for Ramos and Liu, Protesters?|Mike Barnicle|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Cheap as they are, they are a poorer speculation than even corner lots in a lithographic city of Nebraska or Oregon.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
As Davy stood in the road, in doubt which way to go, a Roc came around the corner of the house.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
Now, he chose a small table in a corner of the balcony, close to the glass screen.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
The conflict of these certainties left hopeless disorder in every corner of his being.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood