Associations to the word «Tailback»

Wiktionary

TAILBACK, noun. A line of motor vehicles caught up in traffic congestion; a traffic jam

Dictionary definition

TAILBACK, noun. (American football) the person who plays tailback.
TAILBACK, noun. (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats