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wall pass

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

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.

From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown

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