fullback

1. 1.

   (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team

   Broaderrunning back

   football

2. 2.

   (American football) an offensive position in the backfield

   Broaderback

   Part offootball team

1. 1.

   play the fullback

   Broaderplay

   football

Other forms of fullback

plural

fullbacks·

past tense

fullbacked·

present participle

fullbacking·

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 fullback

What does fullback mean?

fullback means "(football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fullback?

fullback has 2 syllables: full-back. The stress falls on "full". In IPA it is /ˈfʊlˌbæk/.

Is fullback a common word?

fullback 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.

What rhymes with fullback?

34 words rhyme with fullback. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.