Definitions for halfback

halfback half·back

Spelling: [haf-bak, hahf-]
IPA: /ˈhæfˌbæk, ˈhɑf-/

Halfback is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in halfback (aabcfhkl).

Definitions for halfback

noun

  1. Football. one of two backs who typically line up on each side of the fullback. the position played by such a back.
  2. (in soccer, Rugby, field hockey, etc.) a player stationed near the forward line to carry out chiefly offensive duties.

Origin of halfback

First recorded in 1880-85; half + back1

Examples for halfback

I was down stairs in three shakes, and I went through a waiter like a halfback to do it.

Miller, the great Indian halfback, had scored a touchdown, after a long run.

In the first story of this series we watch Yank buck the line as a halfback.

He suffers like an All-America halfback playing on a scrub team.

Sara was halfback on the freshman football team, while Jim played quarterback.

Right at him came Birdie Andrews, hat in hand, and when the halfback arrived he bowed and asked him to stop.

The game brought out Jimmie Craig in the new rôle of halfback and assured him a permanent berth behind the line.

Tom had just obliterated a 150-pound halfback, who had lost the ball, the use of his legs and his Varsity aspirations altogether.

But no halfback was ever so elusive as this infernal college.

Down the field a Princeton halfback had caught the ball and was squirming back.

Word Value for halfback
Scrable

22

Words with friends

24

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