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cornerbacks

cornerbacks is the plural of cornerback.

Meaning of cornerback

Noun

cornerback (plural cornerbacks)

  1. (Gaelic football, hurling) Any of the defensive players who are in position on each side farthest laterally from the ball and whose principal responsibility is to defend against passes.
    • The cornerback tipped the ball away from the receiver.

Questions about cornerbacks

What is cornerbacks the plural of?
Cornerbacks is the plural of cornerback.

Words near cornerbacks in the dictionary

  1. corner-stone
  2. corner-stones
  3. cornerable
  4. cornerback
  5. cornerbacking
  6. cornerbacks
  7. cornerball
  8. cornerboard
  9. cornerboards
  10. cornerboy
  11. cornerboys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cornerbacks (page history and authors); cornerback (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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