[VN] (BrE) to put sb in a difficult or embarrassing situation by doing sth that they do not expect:
It was an attempt to wrong-foot the opposition. * His low pass wrong-footed the other team's defence.
Rate this entry
About this entry
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.
Where does this definition of wrong-foot come from?
This entry for wrong-foot is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is wrong-foot a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, wrong-foot is tagged as verb.
Does wrong-foot appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — wrong-foot appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
