Halfback

Definitions: Halfback

Halfback

Noun

1. (football) the running back who plays the offensive halfback position.

2. The position of a back on a football team.

Crosswords: Halfback

English words defined with "halfback": running back. (references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Halfback Buster (1928)

The Halfback of Notre Dame (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Crackerjack Halfback (reference) (more book examples)

High Tech	Halfback Pad-black Mld Eggshellpadding Relieves Strain On Back (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Halfback" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Halfback" is used about 13 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)	100%	13	97,576

Expression using "halfback": centre halfback. Additional references.
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.

Language		Translations for "halfback"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gjysmëmbrojtës (half). (various references)

Arabic		‏الظهير المساعد. (various references)

Czech		halvbek (half), halv (half), záložník (mid-fielders, reservist). (various references)

Farsi		میان بازیکن(فوتبال), هافبک , بازیکن میانه . (various references)

French		arrière. (various references)

German		läufer (armature, bishop, carpet, crab, cursor, fall, grinding runner, half, hurdler, messenger boy, racers, rotor, rug, Runner, store, store pig, stretcher, young pig). (various references)

Hungarian		fedezet futballban (midfield). (various references)

Indonesian		gelandang. (various references)

Italian		mediano (halfway, medial, median). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ハーバード大学 (50% beam splitter, half, half coat, half made, half mirror, half size camera, half swing, half tone, half volley, halftime, halfway house, harem, harem pants, harmonica, harmonize, harmony, harp, harpoon, harpsichord, harpy, Harvard University, herb, herb tea, hierarchy, high, high octane gasoline, high quality, high-class, high-end, high-grade, highjack, high-key, high-key tone, high-octane, high-sulfur, highway, highway patrol, hijack, hike, hiker, hiking, hurler derby, hyena, jai-alai, mouth organ, someone of mixed Japanese-foreign race, stylish fellow, three-quarter, top coat, westernized), 中衛 (center forward, middle guard). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ハーフバック , ちゅうえい (center forward, middle guard, stationed or resident in the UK). (various references)

Pig Latin		alfbackhay.(various references)

Portuguese		insípido (flat, flavorless, flavourless, frigidity, insipid, jejune, mawseed, milk and water, muzzy, pointless, sapless, savorless, savourless, stale, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, washy, watery, wishy washy). (various references)

Russian		полузащитник (half-back, hb). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		half. (various references)

Spanish		medio (agent, average, extent, habitat, half, half carcase, half-carcase, lift, line, mean, means, medial, medium, mesial, mid, middle, midships, midst, milieu, recipe, remedy, resources, side, tack, the middle, tool, vehicle, way). (various references)

Swedish		halvback (half). (various references)

Thai		ผู้เล่นกองหลัง (กีฬา) (half). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "halfback": halfbacks. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Halfback" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: holbech. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "halfback" (pronounced ha"fba'k)
3	-b a' k	biofeedback, buyback, comeback, cornerback, cutback, drawback, fallback, feedback, flashback, fullback, giveback, greenback, hardback, hatchback, horseback, humpback, hunchback, kickback, leaseback, leatherback, outback, paperback, payback, piggyback, playback, pullback, quarterback, razorback, rollback, setback, throwback, wingback.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-f-h-k-l"
	-3 letters: aback, alack, black, cabal, chalk, flack.
	-4 letters: alba, alfa, baal, bach, back, balk, blah, calf, calk, flab, flak, haaf, hack, half, khaf, lack, lakh.
	-5 letters: aah, aal, aba, aha, ala, alb, baa, bah, bal, cab, kab, kaf, lab, lac.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-f-h-k-l"
	+1 letter: flashback, halfbacks.
	+2 letters: flashbacks.
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