line judge

1. 1.

   football official who assists the referee by keeping track of the official time during the game

   Broaderfootball official

Questions about line judge

What does line judge mean?

line judge means "football official who assists the referee by keeping track of the official time during the game".

Is line judge a common word?

line judge 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.