touch and go
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Characterized by brief and transitory encounters.
- Precarious, delicate, risky, sensitive; of uncertain outcome (by analogy with a ship in shallow water).
- Alternative form of touch and go.
Verb
- To briefly encounter before moving on.
- To touch bottom lightly and continue without damage, as a vessel in motion.
- To perform a touch-and-go landing.
Noun
- Ellipsis of touch-and-go landing.
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