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wide receivers

wide receivers is the plural of wide receiver.

Meaning of wide receiver

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

Questions about wide receivers

What is wide receivers the plural of?
Wide receivers is the plural of wide receiver.

Words near wide receivers in the dictionary

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

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