Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Football The back on an offensive team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage.
Wiktionary
- n. A line of motor vehicles caught up in traffic congestion; a traffic jam
WordNet 3.0
- n. (American football) the person who plays tailback
- n. (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage
Examples
“With good depth, experience and talent, the only question at tailback is who's going to start?”
“The junior tailback is eligible to enter the NFL draft after this season and he'd likely be a first-round pick.”
“The junior tailback is now the fourth running back in school history with two 200-yard performances in a season.”
“(AP) - Branden Ore hasn't had the year he or Virginia Tech expected, but the Hokies tailback is hitting his stride at the right time.”
“The senior tailback is the first Blue Devil to rush for at least”
“Tailback Walter Reyes credits Terry's blocking that year for the reason the tailback was able to run for seventeen touchdowns.”
“LeSean McCoy, since McCoy tweeted that Umenyiora was "overrated" and "soft," and Umenyiora dubbed the tailback " Lady Gaga.”
“He has played fullback and tailback, which is good to see.”
“Immediately the story spread that the tailback was the result of striking public servants skipping the protests and heading off to gorge themselves using their inflated wages.”
“The 5-foot-8, 220-pound bruiser has been moved from fullback to tailback, which is quite the change considering Allen's running backs of the past.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tailback’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Football
pigskin, touchdown, field goal, yardage, quarterback, halfback, tailback, blitz, offense, defense, cornerback, linebacker and 39 more...
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Front and Back
backchat, backbone, backpack, backhoe, backfire, backhanded, breakfront, beachfront, drawback, effrontery, frontier, switchback and 196 more...
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Piping
tailback, blowpipe, valve, drone, chanter, bag, skeepskin, pipe banner, bag seasoning, stocks, reed, henderson and 49 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tailback.
bilby "A man in Germany discovered the dangers of driving an open-top car when an envelope containing 23,000 euros (£20,600) blew off the back seat.
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Police closed the road in both directions for half an hour to search for the missing money. All but 3,000 euros was recovered.
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The motorway closure caused long tailbacks in both directions."
- German motorway strewn with notes, BBC website, 15 May 2009. May 15, 2009
chained_bear "Piping takes a vast amount of mental time, and some occupations are better for this than others: policemen used to say traffic duty was just grand for the purpose. Indeed a famous Hebridean piper/policeman banished to a busy city junction because he hadn't arrested anybody for years ('Well,' he said, 'how would you like to be arrested?') used to produce spectacular tailbacks on a Saturday afternoon."
—William Donaldson, Pipers: A Guide to the Players and Music of the Highland Bagpipe (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005), 2 Jul 27, 2008