field general

Questions about field general

What does field general mean?

field general means "(football) the person who plays quarterback". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for field general?

Close synonyms include quarterback, signal caller, quarterback, signal caller. 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 field general a common word?

field general 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.