Definition of touch wood

touch wood

• variant of "knock on wood", from New Zealand.

  I barely made it out of there alive, touch wood!

  Last edited on Jan 05 2013. Submitted by ybird from San Diego, CA, USA on May 11 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'touch':
anti-Midas touch	Definitions include: a curse in which everything one interacts with turns out badly.
lose touch	Definitions include: to cease regular contact with someone.
out-of-touch	Definitions include: disconnected from reality.
touch	Definitions include: to shoot.
touch and go	Definitions include: of an uncertain outcome.
touch cloth	Definitions include: to be in dire need to defecate.
touch cotton	Definitions include: to need to defecate very badly.
touch hole	Definitions include: jackass, jerk, etc.
touch-squirt	Definitions include: a man who prematurely ejaculates.
Other terms relating to 'wood':
be wood	Definitions include: Used in the expression, "What, am I wood?" which means "Don't ignore me"; "Don't act like I have no feelings"; etc.
chop the wood	Definitions include: to defecate.
come out of the woods	Definitions include: to arrive unexpectedly.
cop some wood	Definitions include: to get an erection.
knock on wood.	Definitions include: to knock on wood in order to avoid some bad thing happening that one was just speaking about.
morning wood	Definitions include: an erection upon waking.
(one's) neck of the woods	Definitions include: one's home neighborhood.
out of the woods	Definitions include: past the worse part of a bad situation, in which things start to improve.
saw wood	Definitions include: to sleep.
To Good For Real Wood	Definitions include: A derogatory phrase used to describe a person who is stuck up. Stems from the use of a high class person using fake, store bought firewood instead of using natural wood.
wood	Definitions include: an erection.
wood pecker	Definitions include: Referring to a gay man who sucks another mans penis
wood shampoo	Definitions include: to strike someone over the head with a baseball bat or billy club.

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