tight end

1. 1.

   (football) an offensive end who lines up close to the tackle

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   football

Questions about tight end

What does tight end mean?

tight end means "(football) an offensive end who lines up close to the tackle".

Is tight end a common word?

tight end is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.