Crossword clues for linebacker
linebacker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context American football English) The defensive players who are in position behind the defensive linemen and in front of the safeties and cornerbacks and whose principal responsibilities are to tackle runners and to defend against shorter passes
WordNet
n. a defensive football player who takes a position close behind the linemen [syn: line backer]
the position of a defensive football player who plays close behind the line of scrimmage [syn: line backer]
Wikipedia
A linebacker (LB or backer) is a playing position in American football and Canadian football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards (4 m) behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen, and therefore "back up the line." Linebackers generally align themselves before the ball is snapped by standing upright in a "two point stance" (as opposed to the defensive linemen, who put one or two hands on the ground for a "three point stance" or "four point stance" before the ball is snapped). The goal of the linebacker is to provide either extra run protection or extra pass protection based on the particular defensive play being executed. Another key play of the linebacker position is blitzing. A blitz occurs when a linebacker acts as an extra pass rusher running into any exposed gap. When a blitz is called by the defense, it is mainly to sack or hurry the opposing offense's quarterback.
A linebacker is a position in American football.
Linebacker may also refer to:
- Operation Linebacker, a U.S. military campaign conducted against North Vietnam
- Operation Linebacker II, a U.S. military campaign conducted against North Vietnam
- Operation Phantom Linebacker, a coalition military operation in Iraq
- M6 Linebacker, a fighting vehicle
Usage examples of "linebacker".
Haitian and broad as a linebacker, slid off a barstool and ambled over to Darling.
He has the squat, blocklike build and look of a football linebacker from the early sixties.
Not as The President: a broken little bully who would sacrifice us all to save himself -- if he still had the choice -- but the same kind of sympathy I might feel, momentarily, for a vicious cheap-shot linebacker whose long career comes to a sudden end one Sunday afternoon when some rookie flanker shatters both his knees with a savage crackback block.
Hobbs received the snapback, Roy Yellin pulled, and there I was with the football, the pigskin, and it was planted once more in my belly and I was running to daylight, to starlight, and getting hit again by Mallon, by number 55, by their middle linebacker, by fivefive, snorting as he hit me, an idiotically lyrical moment.
Lyndon Gray was a tall brunette with the shoulders of a linebacker and the watchful gaze of a jungle cat, his eyes darting back and forth as he took in his surroundings, memorizing, categorizing.
Then Vern Feck brought his linebackers over and we got Randy King to center for us so we could practice defending against the blitz, two setbacks and the center against blitz variations by the three linebackers.
More linebackers than thieves believe this, but when it comes to politics -- to a 28-year career of cheap shots, lies and thievery -- there is no man in America who should understand what is happening to him now better than Richard Milhous Nixon.
Thud told one of the junior varsity linebackers that he wished he could meet Weiss in a dark alley some night.
Their left end pushed him out of bounds and a linebacker knocked him over the Centrex bench.
An assortment of six-inch-high capital letter T's, made from cloth, mounted under glass, along with a corny photo of the seventeen-year-old Cozzano, pigskin tucked under one arm, other arm held out like a jouster's lance to straight-arm an imaginary linebacker from Arcola or Rantoul.
His arm snapped out into a stiff-arm position, as though fending off a linebacker from Arcola or Rantoul, and the stun gun flew across the elevator car, bounced off the wall, and clattered to the floor.
But where Tenny looked like a compact football linebacker or maybe even a petty Mafioso, Murdock reminded Kinsman of an algebra teacher he had suffered under for a year at William Penn Charter School, back in Philadelphia.
The chief master sergeant looked to be pushing fifty, but he also looked like a man who could teach manners to an NFL linebacker.
I watched Deering drop a short pass and get hit a full two seconds later by Buddy Shock, a linebacker.
Juan E and his Django guy sit at one side of the table, and some boss nigger from Central Casting sits at the other side with a guy who looks like an NFL linebacker turned thug.