Associations to the word «Cornerback»

Wiktionary

CORNERBACK, noun. (American football) (Gaelic football) (hurling) The defensive players who are in position on each side farthest laterally from the ball and whose principal responsibility is to defend against passes

Dictionary definition

CORNERBACK, noun. A defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope