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Definition of flanker in English: flankernoun ˈflaŋkəˈflæŋkər 1A person or thing positioned on the flank of something. Example sentencesExamples - The team skipper led by example at full-back, while her flankers kept their respective markers off the scoreboard.
- Guo moved forward into the clearing, her flankers on either side.
- Your flankers will keep the foe from dodging your blows.
- 1.1Rugby
another term for wing forward Example sentencesExamples - The Dublin-based flanker received 21 stitches in a facial wound in an accidental collision with a Shannon player.
- Since then, honours have been piled upon the hot flanker's trammelled head.
- Sadly, the flanker rolled on to his shoulder in the tackle and was left with a dislocation of the joint.
- There will be tremendous interest in seeing how our two flying flankers go.
- The flanker missed the league match against Leinster because of a family wedding.
- 1.2American Football An offensive back who is positioned to the outside of an end.
Example sentencesExamples - He is also athletic enough to have played both ways at college football's highest level, starting at flanker on a national championship team.
- The tight end and flanker line up in the normal spots on the three-receiver side.
- Knapp wants to make Price the flanker in his offense.
- The plan is for Rogers to be the flanker with Williams using his speed on the backside to get downfield and make big plays.
- At Georgia, he had started at flanker, tailback, quarterback, and split end, and also had handled punt and kickoff return duties.
- 1.3Military A fortification guarding or menacing the side of a force or position.
Example sentencesExamples - The 23rd Light Dragoons, raised in 1781, armed its flankers with small, short blunderbusses with elliptical muzzles referred to as musketoons.
- It has four flankers which have a covered communication with each other, and are mounted with good guns.
2British dated, informal A trick or swindle. he's certainly pulled a flanker on the army Synonyms stratagem, ploy, ruse, scheme, device, move, manoeuvre, contrivance, machination, expedient, artifice, wile, dodge
Rhymes anchor, banker, Bianca, canker, Casablanca, Costa Blanca, franker, hanker, lingua franca, Lubyanka, rancour (US rancor), ranker, Salamanca, spanker, Sri Lanka, tanka, tanker, up-anchor Definition of flanker in US English: flankernounˈflæŋkərˈflaNGkər 1A person or thing positioned on the flank of something. Example sentencesExamples - Guo moved forward into the clearing, her flankers on either side.
- The team skipper led by example at full-back, while her flankers kept their respective markers off the scoreboard.
- Your flankers will keep the foe from dodging your blows.
- 1.1American Football An offensive back who lines up to the outside of an end.
Example sentencesExamples - The plan is for Rogers to be the flanker with Williams using his speed on the backside to get downfield and make big plays.
- Knapp wants to make Price the flanker in his offense.
- The tight end and flanker line up in the normal spots on the three-receiver side.
- At Georgia, he had started at flanker, tailback, quarterback, and split end, and also had handled punt and kickoff return duties.
- He is also athletic enough to have played both ways at college football's highest level, starting at flanker on a national championship team.
- 1.2Military A fortification guarding or menacing the side of a force or position.
Example sentencesExamples - It has four flankers which have a covered communication with each other, and are mounted with good guns.
- The 23rd Light Dragoons, raised in 1781, armed its flankers with small, short blunderbusses with elliptical muzzles referred to as musketoons.
2British dated, informal A trick or swindle. he's certainly pulled a flanker on the army Synonyms stratagem, ploy, ruse, scheme, device, move, manoeuvre, contrivance, machination, expedient, artifice, wile, dodge
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