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The position of the offensive back who lines up behind or outside the end
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wingback
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (football) the person who plays wingback the position of the offensive back who lines up behind or outside the end
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The word wingback has several senses: Wing chair , a type of high-backed chair In American football, the wingback is one of several varieties of running backs in the wing T formation. In association football, the wingback is a defensive position
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context football English) A player who doubles as a defender when their team is defending, and a winger when they are attacking. 2 wingback chair, wing chair
Usage examples of wingback.
Mick sat in a wingback chair in his hotel room with Cristy in his lap, consulting the room service menu and offering his daughter one dinner choice after another.
French desk and wingback chairs for the patients, a waiting room that looked like an elegant living room in a fine French home, fresh flowers everywhere and abstract paintings of women and their babies.
The remnants of Detective Rollins--wig, mustache, facial mask, and malleable rubber padding--were neatly positioned on the wingback chair.
Demeter reached over and pressed a call button on the smoking stand beside the wingback.
That knowledge was emphasized by the entrance of the entire Strike Force, fully armed, all the Crest-Leaders and many of the Strike Force with both underwings and wingbacks dyed in the ebony of war.
Although Icarii rarely changed the colour of their hair or their wingbacks, they tended to dye their underwings as the impulse took them.
That knowledge was emphasised by the entrance of the entire Strike Force, fully armed, all the Crest-Leaders and many of the Strike Force with both underwings and wingbacks dyed in the ebony of war.
He was vividly colored, far more so than his mother or brother, with violet eyes, raven-black hair and wingbacks, and gorgeous speckled blue underwings.
He simply rejoiced in the freedom of the unlimited sky and the heat of the sun on his wingbacks as he plummeted further and further down to the green and blue earth below him.
Reassured by the Icarii reaction to the children, perhaps a few of the elderly women, braver than most, would come forward, and then, finally, the entire village would flock about the Icarii, listening in awe as one or more of the Icarii started to sing, stroking their soft wingbacks, exclaiming over their beautiful and alien faces.
He was vividly coloured, far more so than his mother or brother, with violet eyes, raven-black hair and wingbacks, and gorgeous speckled blue underwings.
Two more blue wingbacks and a filigreed silver table formed a conversational area at the rear of the room.