Usually means: Gesture for luck or superstition.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. touch wood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. touch wood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. touch wood: Wiktionary
  4. touch wood: Dictionary.com
  5. Touch wood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. touch-wood: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. Touch Wood (superstitious expression): Britih-American Dictionary
  8. Touch wood: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. Touch wood: World Wide Words

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  1. Touch wood: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Touch wood: Medical dictionary

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  1. touch wood: Idioms

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  1. touch wood: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (touch wood)

verb:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) To make contact with wood to avert bad luck, in accordance with a folk practice.

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