quarterback

1. 1.

   play the quarterback

   Broaderplay

   football

Other forms of quarterback

plural

quarterbacks·

past tense

quarterbacked·

present participle

quarterbacking·

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 quarterback

What does quarterback mean?

quarterback means "(football) the person who plays quarterback". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quarterback?

quarterback has 3 syllables: quar-ter-back. The stress falls on "quar". In IPA it is /ˈkwɔɹtɚˌbæk/.

What is another word for quarterback?

Close synonyms include signal caller, field general, signal caller, field general. 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 quarterback a common word?

quarterback is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 quarterback?

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