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touch-and-go

touch-and-go is the alternative form of touch and go.

touch-and-go is the ellipsis of touch-and-go landing.

Meaning of touch and go

Adjective

touch and go (comparative more touch and go, superlative most touch and go)

  1. (obsolete) Characterized by brief and transitory encounters.
    • Madam, I’m gone; no wonder, for you know,
      Lovers' encounters are but touch and go.1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue
  2. Precarious, delicate, risky, sensitive; of uncertain outcome (by analogy with a ship in shallow water).
    • His condition was touch and go for a time after the accident, but they think he will recover.

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Meaning of touch-and-go landing

Noun

touch-and-go landing (plural touch-and-go landings)

  1. A landing on a runway immediately followed by a takeoff without an intervening full stop.
    Synonyms:
    TGL, touch-and-go

Forms of touch-and-go

Adjective
comparativemore touch-and-go
superlativemost touch-and-go
Noun
pluraltouch-and-goes
pluraltouch-and-go's
pluraltouch-and-gos

Phrases with touch-and-go

Questions about touch-and-go

What is touch-and-go the alternative form of?
Touch-and-go is the alternative form of touch and go.

Words near touch-and-go in the dictionary

  1. touch typing
  2. touch up
  3. touch upon
  4. touch wood
  5. touch'd
  6. touch-and-go
  7. touch-and-go landing
  8. touch-and-go landings
  9. touch-and-go's
  10. touch-and-goes
  11. touch-and-gos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: touch-and-go (page history and authors); touch and go (page history and authors); touch-and-go landing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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