Definitions
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- noun soccer A player who plays on the
wing , and act as both adefender and anattacker depending on the team's situation.
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Examples
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Instead of completely modernizing it I wanted to hold onto classic details that would translate the essence of a wing-back chair.
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The Slide Chair was built from a reclaimed slide component found at a new york city salvage yard, and offers a new playful outlook on the classic wing-back chair.
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Through developing the concept I realized the form language lent itself to a wing-back chair.
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Chelsea have maintained their frenzied late activity in the transfer market as the deadline approaches by lodging a bid of around €20m £16.6m for the highly rated Porto wing-back Alvaro Pereira.
Chelsea lodge £16.6m bid for Porto wing-back Alvaro Pereira 2011
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The right wing-back has, at times, dominated games from an unlikely position.
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We walked into a cavernous reception hall, decorated in typically extravagant Arab style, with crystal chandeliers and dozens of gilt-trimmed wing-back chairs and sofas.
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We walked into a cavernous reception hall, decorated in typically extravagant Arab style, with crystal chandeliers and dozens of gilt-trimmed wing-back chairs and sofas.
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He went, just slowly enough to annoy her, across the room, and threw himself into one of the wing-back chairs beside the desk.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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Don't get me wrong, I don't mean that Scotland will qualify for more World Cups just because we have a new system of governance Kirk Broadfoot will be just as dodgy a wing-back wherever our borders are but I look to Norway, to Sweden, to Ireland and to Italy and I see a people for some reason more sporty than ourselves.
SNP sinking on sport Jeff 2009
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Don't get me wrong, I don't mean that Scotland will qualify for more World Cups just because we have a new system of governance Kirk Broadfoot will be just as dodgy a wing-back wherever our borders are but I look to Norway, to Sweden, to Ireland and to Italy and I see a people for some reason more sporty than ourselves.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jeff 2009
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