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Answer for the clue "Football position ", 8 letters:
tailback

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Word definitions for tailback in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Both carriageways were closed for eight hours causing huge tailbacks. ▪ But flustered John's ordeal only ended when police went to investigate what was causing the two-mile tailback near Gateshead. ▪ Southbound there were tailbacks ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A line of motor vehicles caught up in traffic congestion; a traffic jam

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. (football) the person who plays tailback the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage

Usage examples of tailback.

The handsome Tiger tailback, famous college star and glamour boy of pro football, was another doubtful one.

Up until now the problems had been fairly basic‑things like it being obsolete before they had finished building it, Einsteinian tailbacks that eventually became tailforwards, that kind of thing.