line of scrimmage

1. 1.

   line parallel to the goal lines where football linesmen line up at the start of each play in American football

   “the runner was tackled at the line of scrimmage”

   Synonymsscrimmage line

   Broaderline

Questions about line of scrimmage

What does line of scrimmage mean?

line of scrimmage means "line parallel to the goal lines where football linesmen line up at the start of each play in American football".

What is another word for line of scrimmage?

Close synonyms include scrimmage line. 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 line of scrimmage a common word?

line of scrimmage 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.