knock on
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See also: knock-on
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]knock on (third-person singular simple present knocks on, present participle knocking on, simple past and past participle knocked on)
- (transitive, intransitive, rugby) To commit a foul by knocking the ball forward.
- 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- It then took a desperate piece of defending from Ben Foden to deny Scotland a try in the left-hand corner, the full-back reaching out an arm to knock the ball from Simon Danielli's grasp, Nick de Luca knocking on with the line at his mercy.
- (slang) To have an affair; to commit adultery.
- He's knocking on with her.
- Those two knocked on together.
Translations
[edit]commit a foul in rugby
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