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crackback

noun

Etymology

From crack + back.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as crackback — “crack + back”

Definitions

  1. A block in which the blocker, positioned wide, blocks back towards where the ball was…

    A block in which the blocker, positioned wide, blocks back towards where the ball was snapped.

    • Mike Pereira, the league’s director of officiating, said Wade did not commit an illegal crackback block because he was blocking upfield and not back toward the ball.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crackback. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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