scrimmage line

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”

   Synonymsline of scrimmage

   Broaderline

Questions about scrimmage line

What does scrimmage line mean?

scrimmage line 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 scrimmage line?

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

scrimmage line 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.