flanker

1. 1.

   a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver

   Synonymsflanker back

   Broaderback
2. 2.

   a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation

   Broadersoldier

   Part ofdetachment

   military

Other forms of flanker

plural

flankers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flanker

What does flanker mean?

flanker means "a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flanker?

flanker has 2 syllables: flan-ker. The stress falls on "flan".

What is another word for flanker?

Close synonyms include flanker back. 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 flanker a common word?

flanker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.