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slide-tackle

slide-tackle verb: to tackle another player by sliding on the ground feet-first.

Verb

slide-tackle (third-person singular simple present slide-tackles, present participle slide-tackling, simple past and past participle slide-tackled)

  1. To tackle another player by sliding on the ground feet-first.

Forms of slide-tackle

third-person singular presentslide-tackles
present participleslide-tackling
past participleslide-tackled
pastslide-tackled

Questions about slide-tackle

What does slide-tackle mean?
Slide-tackle means to tackle another player by sliding on the ground feet-first.
What part of speech is slide-tackle?
Slide-tackle is a verb.
What is the past tense of slide-tackle?
The past tense of slide-tackle is slide-tackled.

Words near slide-tackle in the dictionary

  1. slide whistles
  2. slide-butt
  3. slide-butts
  4. slide-show
  5. slide-shows
  6. slide-tackle
  7. slideable
  8. slideably
  9. slidebar
  10. slidebars
  11. slided

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