Usually means: Midfielders between defenders and forwards.
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  1. halfbacks: Merriam-Webster
  2. halfbacks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. halfbacks: Vocabulary.com
  4. halfback's, halfbacks: Wordnik
  5. halfbacks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. halfbacks: Wiktionary
  7. halfbacks: Dictionary.com
  8. halfbacks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. halfbacks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. halfbacks: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (halfback)

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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