linebacker blitzing

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   (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line

   Synonymssafety blitzblitz

   Broadermaneuver

   American football

Questions about linebacker blitzing

What does linebacker blitzing mean?

linebacker blitzing means "(American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line".

What is another word for linebacker blitzing?

Close synonyms include safety blitz, blitz. 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 linebacker blitzing a common word?

linebacker blitzing 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.