Usually means: Midfield player in soccer, rugby.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word halfback:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. halfback: Merriam-Webster
  2. halfback, halfback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. halfback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. halfback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. halfback: Vocabulary.com
  6. Halfback, halfback: Wordnik
  7. halfback: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. halfback: Wiktionary
  9. halfback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. halfback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. halfback: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. halfback: Dictionary.com
  13. halfback: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Halfback (American football), Halfback (Canadian football): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. halfback: Rhymezone
  16. halfback: FreeDictionary.org
  17. halfback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. halfback: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. halfback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halfback: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halfback: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Halfback: Sports Definitions

(Note: See halfbacks as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (field sports) Any of various positions on the field of play between the forwards and the fullbacks.
noun:  (field sports) A player who occupies one of these positions.
noun:  (American football) An offensive back whose primary jobs are to carry the ball on running plays and to serve as a receiver or blocker on passing plays.
noun:  (Canadian football) A defensive back whose primary jobs are to cover the slotback on passing plays and prevent running plays from going to the outside.
noun:  (field hockey) A player in the halfback position, with both offensive and defensive roles.
noun:  (Australian rules football) One of three players (the centre halfback and two halfback flankers) on the line between the centre line and the fullback line.
noun:  (rugby) The player who feeds the ball into the scrum, and receives the ball as it emerges from the back of the scrum.
noun:  A person from the northern United States who moves to Florida, but then due to the heat or other issues, moves again to a more temperate climate, primarily the Carolinas.
verb:  To play in the position of halfback.

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