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wing back

wing back is the alternative form of wingback.

Meaning of wingback

Noun

wingback (plural wingbacks)

  1. A player who doubles on either side of the center as a defender when their team is defending, and a winger when they are attacking.
  2. A running back who is in formation near the line of scrimmage and outside the tackles, a slotback.
  3. One of the projecting side pieces on a wingback chair.
  4. A wingback chair.

Forms of wing back

pluralwing backs

Questions about wing back

What is wing back the alternative form of?
Wing back is the alternative form of wingback.

Words near wing back in the dictionary

  1. winful
  2. wing
  3. wing and prayer
  4. wing attack
  5. wing attacks
  6. wing back
  7. wing backs
  8. wing bar
  9. wing bars
  10. wing bone
  11. wing bones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wing back (page history and authors); wingback (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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