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halfbacking

halfbacking is the present participle and gerund of halfback.

Meaning of halfback

Verb

halfback (third-person singular simple present halfbacks, present participle halfbacking, simple past and past participle halfbacked)

  1. To play in the position of halfback.

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Questions about halfbacking

What is halfbacking the present participle and gerund of?
Halfbacking is the present participle and gerund of halfback.

Words near halfbacking in the dictionary

  1. halfassed
  2. halfassery
  3. halfawake
  4. halfback
  5. halfbacked
  6. halfbacking
  7. halfbacks
  8. halfbaked
  9. halfbat
  10. halfbats
  11. halfbeak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: halfbacking (page history and authors); halfback (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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