flare pass

1. 1.

   a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines

   “he threw a flare to the fullback who was tackled for a loss”

   Synonymsflare

   Broaderforward pass

Questions about flare pass

What does flare pass mean?

flare pass means "a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines".

What is another word for flare pass?

Close synonyms include flare. 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 flare pass a common word?

flare pass 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.