Definition of End run

1. Noun. (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line.

Exact synonyms: Sweep
Category relationships: American Football, American Football Game
Generic synonyms: Run, Running, Running Game, Running Play

Definition of End run

1. Noun. A running play in American football in which the player carrying the ball attempts to avoid being tackled by evading the defending players from the opposing team ¹

2. Noun. (informal by extension) An attempt to avoid a difficult situation by transcending it without confronting it directly ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of End Run

end of the world
end on
end organ
end oxidation
end pieces
end plate
end plate potential
end point
end product
end product inhibition
end product repression
end quote
end rhyme
end rhymes
end run (current term)
end stage
end state
end table
end times
end up
end user
end user license agreement
end users
end zone
end zones
endable
endadelphos
endaemonism
endamage

Literary usage of End run

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pisa 2003 Data Analysis Manual: SAS Users by OECD Staff (2005)
"... ARRAY A (5) PV1-PV5; ARRAY B (5) FINI-FINS; ARRAY C ( 5 ) VAR1-VAR5; DO 1=1 TO 5; C(I) = (1/20) END; RUN; (A(I)-B(I) )**2) ; PROC UNIVARIATE ..."

2. Athletics at Princeton: A History by James Hugh Moffatt, Frank Presbrey (1901)
"A long end run by Reiter in the first half, with excellent interference, carried the baH to within л few yards of Yale's goal line, and two short plunges ..."

3. Inside Football by Frank W. Cavanaugh (1919)
"So far as I am concerned, this and similar plays are much to be preferred to the ordinary end run. To make the run effective, however, the defensive team ..."

4. Cabinetwork and Joinery: Comprising Designs and Details of Construction by Paul N Hasluck (1907)
"Let the right end run over an extra J in. to form a mitre with the return plinth. Hiving fitted the plinth, drive tin- bottom in place and mark the tongue ..."

5. The Book of Athletics by Paul Withington, Lothrop Withington (1914)
"on a mass play or end run get in the interference. ... As soon as the play is seen to be an end run the defensive center should have time to get out there ..."

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