Usually means: Knock on wood for luck.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word touchwood:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. touchwood: Merriam-Webster
  2. touchwood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. touchwood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. touchwood: Collins English Dictionary
  5. touchwood: Vocabulary.com
  6. Touchwood, touchwood: Wordnik
  7. touchwood: Wiktionary
  8. touchwood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. touchwood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. touchwood: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. touchwood: Dictionary.com
  12. Touchwood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Touchwood: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. touchwood: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. touchwood: Rhymezone
  16. Touchwood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. TOUCHWOOD, Touchwood: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  18. touchwood: FreeDictionary.org
  19. touchwood: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. touchwood: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touchwood: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (touchwood)

▸ noun:  Decayed wood used as tinder; punk.

Similar:
tinder, spunk, kindling, punk, matchwood, barnwood, wood, chatwood, kindlewood, woodpile, more...

Opposite:
waterproof, fire-resistant, non-flammable

Phrases:
Touchwood Pacific Partners, more...

Adjectives:
old, rotten, dry, present, poor, lighted, lady, much, jealous, undaunted, young

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Similar:
tinder, spunk, kindling, punk, matchwood, barnwood, wood, chatwood, kindlewood, woodpile, more...

Opposite:
waterproof, fire-resistant, non-flammable

Phrases:
Touchwood Pacific Partners, more...

Adjectives:
old, rotten, dry, present, poor, lighted, lady, much, jealous, undaunted, young



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