draw play

1. 1.

   (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage

   Synonymsdraw

   Broaderrun

   American football

Questions about draw play

What does draw play mean?

draw play means "(American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage".

What is another word for draw play?

Close synonyms include draw. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is draw play a common word?

draw play is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.