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名詞

two touch

1. A variant of soccer in which players are allowed to touch the ball only twice in succession before it must go to another player.
   • 2002, Mick Critchell, Warm Ups for Soccer: A Dynamic Approach, page 53:

     Play two touch so that ball circulation is quick.

   • 2004, Phil Wymer, Coaching Soccer Tactics, page 28:

     Far too often teams play too much two touch (2 touch is still a good drill) but the extra touch changes everything (the picture) and time is a lost as is the opportunity to use space and catch the defence out .

   • 2014, Derek Smethurst, Soccer Technique for Winning, page 95:

     There's two touch, one touch, maybe a little three touch, passing drills etc.

   • 2019, Anya Maris, Perseverance: Picking Up the Pieces After All These Years, page 27:

     We would play two touch, flag and sometimes tackle football, run all in the fields, and mostly at night we played hide and seek and would be up drinking coffee doing all kinds of things.

2. (figurative) A mode of interaction that keeps physical intimacy to a minimum.
   • 2019, “Same Old Story” (track 6), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta:

     Try to keep it short and sweet but I say too much
     Now she wanna go back and forth, she wanna play two touch