BACKFIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does backfield mean? 

• BACKFIELD (noun)
  The noun BACKFIELD has 1 sense:

1. the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen

  Familiarity information: BACKFIELD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACKFIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The offensive football players who line up behind the linemen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("backfield" is a kind of...):

formation (an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit)

Meronyms (members of "backfield"):

back ((American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage)

Holonyms ("backfield" is a member of...):

eleven; football team (a team that plays football)