Word: floater
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...elation, however, was short-lived, as UMass jumped ahead for the second time when Posser hit a high floater from about 20 yards...
...golfer and soccer player turned placekicker in the last two weeks, missed on the point-after attempt. Arnold, who hit his first PAT try nicely, had trouble with his short irons all day, hooking wide on two PATs, though he narrowly connected on the final kick, a low trajectory floater that split the uprights...
...Cassidy's will not seek to offer a standardized version of the language; its gaze is fixed instead on linguistic oddities too localized to win general acceptance. For example, Cassidy has discovered that in various parts of the U.S. a heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder. False teeth are known colloquially as snappers, plaster pearls, chow chompers and china clippers. The term baby carriage is now used nationally, but baby coach is a popular variation in Mid-Atlantic states and baby buggy is used...
Like the by-pass, the fate of the floater plan is also in the hands of the committees...