FOOTBALL PLAYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does football player mean? 

• FOOTBALL PLAYER (noun)
  The noun FOOTBALL PLAYER has 1 sense:

1. an athlete who plays American football

  Familiarity information: FOOTBALL PLAYER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOOTBALL PLAYER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An athlete who plays American football

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

football player; footballer

Hypernyms ("football player" is a kind of...):

athlete; jock (a person trained to compete in sports)

participant; player (a person who participates in or is skilled at some game)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "football player"):

back ((football) a person who plays in the backfield)

ball carrier; runner ((football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play)

blocker (a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play)

cornerback (a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers)

football hero (a football player who has achieved a reputation for success)

kicker (a player who kicks the football)

line backer; linebacker (a defensive football player who takes a position close behind the linemen)

lineman (one of the players on the line of scrimmage)

pass catcher; pass receiver; receiver (a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass)

tackler (a football player who tackles the ball carrier)

 Context examples 

As to our own representative, the well-known athlete and international Rugby football player, E. D. Malone, he looks trained to a hair, and as he surveyed the crowd a smile of good-humored contentment pervaded his honest but homely face.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)