Word.ws English Dictionary

hard counts

hard counts is the plural of hard count.

Meaning of hard count

Noun

hard count (plural hard counts)

  1. The situation where the quarterback attempts to draw the defense offside through a deceptive snap count sequence, sometimes accompanied by subtle body movements which simulate the initiation of the play.
    • Jones is good at drawing a defense offside with his hard count.
  2. The process of counting and verifying coins or tokens.

Questions about hard counts

What is hard counts the plural of?
Hard counts is the plural of hard count.

Words near hard counts in the dictionary

  1. hard count
  2. hard counter
  3. hard countered
  4. hard countering
  5. hard counters
  6. hard counts
  7. hard court
  8. hard courts
  9. hard currencies
  10. hard currency
  11. hard deck

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hard counts (page history and authors); hard count (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hard counts.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hard_counts. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.