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right-halves

right-halves is the plural of right-half.

Meaning of right-half

Noun

right-half (plural right-halves)

  1. (dated) A player who plays wide on the right side of midfield
    • He had grown up admiring his United predecessor Eddie Colman, a right-half of greater natural gifts, who died in the Munich air disaster of 1958. By that time Stiles had already represented England schoolboys as a right-half, displaying attacking talents that would be somewhat inhibited in his...2020 October 30, Brian Glanville, “Nobby Stiles obituary”, in The Guardian

Questions about right-halves

What is right-halves the plural of?
Right-halves is the plural of right-half.

Words near right-halves in the dictionary

  1. right-faces
  2. right-footed
  3. right-footer
  4. right-footers
  5. right-half
  6. right-halves
  7. right-hand
  8. right-hand drive
  9. right-hand man
  10. right-hand men
  11. right-hand path

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Adapted from Wiktionary: right-halves (page history and authors); right-half (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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