What does touch-and-go mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. parlous, perilous, precarious, touch-and-goadjective

    fraught with danger

    "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"

Wiktionary

  1. touch-and-gonoun

    A landing on a runway immediately followed by a takeoff without an intervening full stop.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. touch-and-go

    Said of anything within an ace of ruin; as in rounding a ship very narrowly to escape rocks, &c., or when, under sail, she rubs against the ground with her keel, without much diminution of her velocity.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of touch-and-go in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of touch-and-go in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of touch-and-go in a Sentence

  1. Ron Rutland:

    It is absolutely surreal to be in Japan, there has been some times during this journey that it has been a little touch and go and we had a very tight schedule we had to keep to.

  2. Mark Herman:

    He is touch and go, some days are good. Some days are bad but he continues to fight the good fight.

  3. Judge Hickson:

    It was touch and go, but last I heard, they were in school.

  4. Buckminster Fuller:

    If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

  5. Neil Cavuto:

    It was really touch and go, some of you who've wanted to put me out of my misery darn near got what you wished for ! So sorry to disappoint you !

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