Usually means: Brief landing followed by takeoff.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word touch and go:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. touch and go: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. touch-and-go, touch and go: Merriam-Webster
  3. touch and go: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. touch-and-go: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. touch-and-go, touch-and-go, touch and go: Collins English Dictionary
  6. touch-and-go: Vocabulary.com
  7. touch and go: Wordnik
  8. touch-and-go: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. touch-and-go, touch and go: Wiktionary
  10. touch-and-go: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. touch and go: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. touch-and-go, touch and go: Dictionary.com
  13. touch-and-go: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Touch and Go (Cars song), Touch and Go (Magazine song), Touch and Go (The Cars song), Touch and Go (band), Touch and Go (book), Touch and Go, Touch and go: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. touch-and-go: Rhymezone
  16. Touch and Go: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. touch-and-go, touch and go: FreeDictionary.org
  18. touch-and-go: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Touch and Go: The Word Detective
  20. touch-and-go, touch and go: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touch-and-go: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touch-and-go, touch and go: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (touch and go)

adjective:  (obsolete) Characterized by brief and transitory encounters.
adjective:  Precarious, delicate, risky, sensitive; of uncertain outcome (by analogy with a ship in shallow water).
verb:  (obsolete) To briefly encounter before moving on.
verb:  (nautical) To touch bottom lightly and continue without damage, as a vessel in motion.
verb:  (aviation) To perform a touch-and-go landing.

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