Usually means: Defensive player covering opposing receivers.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word cornerback:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. cornerback: Merriam-Webster
  2. cornerback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cornerback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cornerback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cornerback: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cornerback, cornerback: Wordnik
  7. cornerback: Wiktionary
  8. cornerback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cornerback (corner back): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cornerback: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cornerback: Dictionary.com
  12. Cornerback (American football), Cornerback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. cornerback: Rhymezone
  14. cornerback: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cornerback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. cornerback: TheFreeDictionary.com

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cornerback: Sports Definitions

(Note: See cornerbacking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cornerback)

noun:  (American football, Gaelic football, hurling) Any of the defensive players who are in position on each side farthest laterally from the ball and whose principal responsibility is to defend against passes.

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