wall pass

British

noun

Also called: one-two. soccer a movement in which one player passes the ball to another and sprints forward to receive the quickly played return

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I can play a wall pass off him, give him crosses.

From The Guardian • Oct. 16, 2015

Roberto Baggio's languorous solo against Czechoslovakia at Italia 90 starts when he plays a neat wall pass with Giuseppe Giannini, but that is unsurprisingly lost in what follows.

From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2010

It would rather, if any were in the wall, pass out of it into the rod, to get more readily by that conductor into the earth.

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Along this wall pass men carrying all sorts of vessels and statues and figures of animals.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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