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fullback
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Wikipedia
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Fullback (or full-back ) is one of the positions in a rugby league football team. Wearing jersey number 1 , the fullback is a member of the team's 'back-line' (1-7). The position's name comes from their duty of standing the furthest back in defence, behind ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bangor led 1-0 with a ninth minute goal from Johnny Magee after fullback Mickey McKeown failed to clear. ▪ He made two appearances at fullback , once in the first quarter and again in the third quarter. ▪ He was kicked when he ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
fullback \fullback\ n. an offensive football player who plays farther behind the line of scrimmage than the half-back. They are used primarily for blocking and line plunges. Syn: fullback.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en American football) An offensive back whose primary jobs are to block in advance of the halfback on running plays and for the quarterback on passing plays. 2 (label en field hockey) A defensive player who assists the goalie in preventing the ...
Usage examples of fullback.
He had been right halfback in the same backfield at Waterford High where I had played fullback, Mike Hess had been the left half, and Capers Middleton had called signals at quarterback.
The rosebushes along the western wall of the house served as the garden of Gethsemane where an ex-Bronco fullback betrayed Mr.
Morgen had latched onto Ted's number one rival for big man on campus, the school's lead fullback, Wally Parr, but Ted had seemed totally uninterested in female companionship.
Hartley Flanagan was a corporation lawyer who could chin himself a dozen times and had been a varsity fullback at Stanford.
Unfortunately, the people who invented karate never got to practice on 235-pound former NFL fullbacks with sequoia-sized arms.
They land on an idea, even an important idea, like one of their fullbacks making a tackle.
But then John Pope took over, and with a series of brilliant plays, carried the ball down the field toward the Benton goal line, where the Clay fullback punched it across.