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back-heel

back-heel is the alternative form of backheel.

Meaning of backheel

Noun

backheel (plural backheels)

  1. A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
    • [Bendtner was central to it at all, firstly firing home, via a deflection off Gareth McAuley, after being teed up by Sebastien Larsson's neat backheel, and then a minute later crossing for Elmohamady to head in an equaliser.2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
  2. A method of tripping or throwing by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back.

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Forms of back-heel

Noun
pluralback-heels
Verb
third-person singular presentback-heels
present participleback-heeling
past participleback-heeled
pastback-heeled

Questions about back-heel

What is back-heel the alternative form of?
Back-heel is the alternative form of backheel.

Words near back-heel in the dictionary

  1. back-handedness
  2. back-hander
  3. back-handers
  4. back-handing
  5. back-hands
  6. back-heel
  7. back-heeled
  8. back-heeling
  9. back-heels
  10. back-house
  11. back-houses

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