linebacker

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(in American football) a DEFENSIVE player who tries to TACKLE members of the other team

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

linebackerEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary linebackerEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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