slide tackle

See also: slide-tackle

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slide tackle (plural slide tackles)

  1. (soccer) a tackle to get the ball by sliding on the ground feet-first
    • 2002 February 27, “Cruncher Karembeu takes it out on his wife”, in The Guardian‎:
      Christian Karembeu almost broke his supermodel wife's leg with a slide tackle during a football game in their back garden.

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