middle guard
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First sense first attested in 1871.[1]
Noun
[edit]middle guard (plural middle guards)
- (American football) A defensive player positioned in the middle of the pitch, opposite the offensive center and between the defensive tackles; the nose guard.
- 1956, Jack C. Mitchell, Bernard A. Taylor, Umbrella Defenses, W. C. Brown Company, page 17:
- It allows the middle guard of the defense to roam, and with the combined efforts of his teammates he will emerge your leading tackler game in and out.
- 2022 April 25, George Bozeka, editor, The 1951 Los Angeles Rams: Profiles of the NFL's First West Coast Champions, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 285:
- The middle guard faced off consistently against the offensive center, with one or occasionally both hands in the dirt. On running plays, he bore the traditional run-stuffing responsibilities.
- (cricket, rare) The guard.[1]
- (rare, of a person) One between the new guard and the old guard.
- 2022 January 23, Lesley M. M. Blume, “The L.A. Power Lunch is Alive and Well”, in Town & Country[1]:
- Hollywood's oldest restaurant and the darling of the old guard (Jack Nicholson has his namesake booth), the middle guard (Quentin Tarantino used it as a location in Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood), and the new guard (it has become a destination for Netflix execs and producers).
Synonyms
[edit]- (American football): nose guard
- (American football): nose tackle
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “middle guard, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2023.
Further reading
[edit]- “middle guard”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “middle guard”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.