LINEBACKER meaning: Defensive player tackling in football

We found 24 dictionaries that define the word linebacker:

General (21 matching dictionaries)

linebacker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
linebacker: Merriam-Webster
linebacker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
linebacker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
linebacker: Collins English Dictionary
linebacker: Vocabulary.com
Linebacker, linebacker: Wordnik
linebacker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
linebacker: Wiktionary
linebacker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
linebacker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
linebacker: Infoplease Dictionary
linebacker: Dictionary.com
linebacker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Linebacker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
linebacker: Rhymezone
linebacker: FreeDictionary.org
linebacker: Mnemonic Dictionary
linebacker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

linebacker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Linebacker, the linebacker: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Linebacker: Sports Definitions

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▸ noun: (American football) The defensive players who are in position behind the defensive linemen and in front of the safeties and cornerbacks and whose principal responsibilities are to tackle runners and to defend against shorter passes.

Opposite:

wide receiver, running back, cornerback

Types:

4-3, 3-4, middle, outside, rush, more...

Phrases:

outside linebacker, linebacker blitzing, Operation Linebacker II, Operation Linebacker, nfl linebacker junior, more...

Adjectives:

middle, outside, inside, former, best, great, defensive, pound, right, side, left

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