TAILBACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tailback mean? 

• TAILBACK (noun)
  The noun TAILBACK has 2 senses:

1. (American football) the person who plays tailback

2. (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage

  Familiarity information: TAILBACK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAILBACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(American football) the person who plays tailback

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Domain category:

football; football game (any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

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

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

eleven; football team (a team that plays football)