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Definition of Quarterback
1. Verb. Play the quarterback.
2. Noun. (football) the person who plays quarterback.
Category relationships: Football, Football Game
Generic synonyms: Back
3. Noun. (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team. "Quarterback is the most important position on the team"
Generic synonyms: Back
Group relationships: Eleven, Football Team
Definition of Quarterback
1. Noun. (American football) an offensive back whose primary job is to pass the ball in a play ¹
2. Verb. (American football) to play the position of quarterback ¹
3. Verb. (by extension) to lead the offense ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quarterback
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarterback
Literary usage of Quarterback
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inside Football by Frank W. Cavanaugh (1919)
"CHAPTER XIII quarterback PLAY IN picking quarterbacks my first inclination would
be for a man of strong, magnetic voice, confident manner, and pronounced ..."
2. American Football by Charles Dudley Daly (1921)
"The carriage of the quarterback, as the team approaches the goal line, is
particularly important. ... The quarterback should practice changing the character ..."
3. Goal Lines: An Anthology of Princeton Verse : Athletically Inclined by Frank Davis Halsey, Anastasio Carlos Mariano Azoy (1922)
"... bedecked with azure wool, And Kempton playing quarterback, and Bullet Jim at
full, And Yale with three points to the good—ah, shame that this should be— ..."
4. Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac (1921)
"St. Francis Prep—Sullivan, left halfback; Hartley, quarterback; Gallagher, left
tackle. (¡OLF. The season of 1920 proved to be the most important in the ..."
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