lateral pass

1. 1.

   a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer

   Synonymslateral

   Broaderpass

Questions about lateral pass

What does lateral pass mean?

lateral pass means "a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer".

What is another word for lateral pass?

Close synonyms include lateral. 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 lateral pass a common word?

lateral 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.