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Touch Wood 

It's the British equivilent of saying knock on wood.

Contrary to popular belief it has no relation to touching men's wood.

However it is most commonly said in order to prevent a confident statement from bringing bad luck.

Meaning to hope for the best.

When said most people will touch or knock on wood and some strange people will also knock on their heads!
"I haven't been banned from the group yet, touch wood!"
Touch Wood by LottieRawr September 18, 2017
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Torchwood is a tv show based on the popular British series Doctor Who.

Also if you take all the words from Doctor Who you can spell Torchwood
D O C T O R W H O

D O C O R W H O-----T
D O C R W H O-----TO
D O C W H O-----TOR
D O W H O-----TORC
D O W O-----TORCH
D O O-----TORCH W
D O -----TORCH WO
D -----TORCH WOO

TORCHWOOD!
torchwood by James Fitzgerald December 15, 2008
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techwood 

Arousal of that certain part of the male anatomy through an encounter with a remarkable technological breakthrough
After watching the latest Google IO announcement, I had to leave the room with a book covering my junk, because I had raging techwood.
techwood by Ed Wexler August 18, 2011
Torchwood is a spin-off of Doctor Who. It is sorta like CSI: Cardiff only with alien technology. More adult than Doctor Who, it airs on Sundays, 10pm BBC3. Also similiar to the X-Files.
Forensic Guy: "Special Access" they said.
Gwen Cooper: For who?
Forensic Guy: Torchwood.
Torchwood by PJ360 November 2, 2006

touchwhore 

One who enjoys being close to and touching others in a nonsexual way.
Often used as a term of endearment.
As she went around collecting hugs from all her friends, she laughed as every one of them called her a touchwhore.

Touchnoob 

A player in the world of Guild Wars who uses the 'touch ranger' build, focussing on health draining while using minimum energy for it.
It's really easy to play this build and considered noobish.
omg, go away touchnoob.. go fck yourself
Touchnoob by SeventhGrave July 22, 2009

touch wood 

cockney slang for draw blood
"Do not touch wood from that pig"
touch wood by Ampuero December 10, 2006