forward pass

1. 1.

   a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer

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   Broaderpass

   Narrowerflare passscreen pass

Questions about forward pass

What does forward pass mean?

forward pass means "a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer".

What is another word for forward pass?

Close synonyms include aerial. 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 forward pass a common word?

forward 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.