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wide receiver

wide receiver noun: an offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.

Noun

wide receiver (plural wide receivers)

  1. An offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.
    • All season, the Chiefs have struggled on offense, in particular in the pass catching department. On multiple occasions throughout the regular season, Mahomes was burned by mental miscues from his wide receivers which cost the Chiefs wins.2024 February 12, Ben Morse and Steve Almasy, “Kansas City Chiefs defeat San Francisco 49ers in OT in Super Bowl LVIII, become first back-to-back NFL champions in 19 years”, in CNN.com

Forms of wide receiver

pluralwide receivers

Questions about wide receiver

What does wide receiver mean?
Wide receiver means an offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.
What part of speech is wide receiver?
Wide receiver is a noun.
What is the plural of wide receiver?
The plural of wide receiver is wide receivers.

Words near wide receiver in the dictionary

  1. wide games
  2. wide of the mark
  3. wide open
  4. wide place in the road
  5. wide places in the road
  6. wide receiver
  7. wide receivers
  8. Wide SCSI
  9. wide shot
  10. wide shots
  11. wide shut

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