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toucher

toucher

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A player or object that makes contact with another to start play in a game
  • noun
  • /ˈtʌtʃər/
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  • As a toucher in the game of touch football, your role is to tag the opposing players instead of tackling them.

Obviously you could touch someone that's primary touchers touching areas, but to think that you have your own print everyone, no one's ever going to have yours.

Examples

  • Obviously you could touch someone that's primary touchers touching areas, but to think that you have your own print everyone, no one's ever going to have yours.

    Theo Von

  • In tag, a player becomes the toucher when they lightly tap someone to eliminate them from the game.

  • During the relay race, each team member is a toucher who makes contact with the baton before passing it.

Surface Forms

toucher singular
touchers plural

Morphology

toucher = touch (transparent) = touch + er

Regular agentive formation where '-er' indicates an agent or one that performs the action 'touch'.

Etymology

Toucher comes from the French toucher, which means 'to touch' and is the same as the English word touch, so in a game a toucher is the person or thing that makes the first touch.