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Definition: Fullback |
FullbackNoun1. (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team. 2. The position of a back on a football team. Verb1. Play the fullback, in football. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Fullback |
| English words defined with "fullback": draw, draw play ♦ running back. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Father Was a Fullback (1949) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U.S. Air Force Academy Falcons' fullback Nate Beard evades Fresno State Bulldogs' Bryce McGill for a seven yard gain during this play in the first quarter of the Silicon Valley Football Classic Dec. 30. The Falcons went on to win the game 37-34. (Air Forc. |  | Hugh McElhenny, University of Washington fullback, being downed by Paul Baldwin, halfback for the University of California, after a two-yard gain in the second quarter of the game played at Berkeley, Calif., Oct. 22, 1949. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Fullback" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.59% of the time. "Fullback" is used about 111 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.59% | 105 | 31,781 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.41% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 111 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fullback": wing-cum-fullback. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fullback | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fullback"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mbrojtës (advocate, apologetic, apologetical, back, champion, conservator, defender, guard, Guardian, keeper, paraclete, patron, protective, protector, quarterback, tutelar, vindicator, vindicatory). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | краен защитник, бек. (various references) | |
Chinese | 后卫. (various references) | |
Greek | αμυντικός (defensive). (various references) | |
Hungarian | középfedezet (center half back, centre half back). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フルタイ "業" (bases loaded, full marathon, full name, full path, full time employee). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フルバック . (various references) | |
Korean | '백. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ullbackfay.(various references) | |
Russian | защитник в футболе (quarterback), защитник (advocate, apologist, apologizer, asserter, assertor, back, champion, cover, cover-point, defender, defense attorney, defenseman, pleader, proponent, protector, quarterback, vindicative, vindicator). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vođa navale. (various references) | |
Swedish | försvarsspelare (defender, quarterback). (various references) | |
Turkish | bek oyuncu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fullback": fullbacks. (additional references) | |
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"Fullback" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bulbeck. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fullback" (pronounced fuh"lba'k) |
| 5 | -uh" l b a' k | pullback. |
| 4 | -l b a' k | fallback, rollback. |
| 3 | -b a' k | biofeedback, buyback, comeback, cornerback, cutback, drawback, feedback, flashback, giveback, greenback, halfback, hardback, hatchback, horseback, humpback, hunchback, kickback, leaseback, leatherback, outback, paperback, payback, piggyback, playback, quarterback, razorback, setback, throwback, wingback. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-f-k-l-l-u" | |
-3 letters: baulk, black, bulla, caulk, flack. | |
-4 letters: back, balk, ball, buck, bulk, bull, calf, calk, call, caul, club, cull, fall, flab, flak, flub, full, lack, luck. | |
-5 letters: alb, all, auk, bal, cab, cub, flu, fub, kab, kaf, lab, lac. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-f-k-l-l-u" | |
+1 letter: fullbacks. | |
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