middle guard

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A defensive player positioned in the middle of the pitch, opposite the offensive center and between the defensive tackles; the nose guard.
    — 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.
  2. The guard. rare
  3. One between the new guard and the old guard. rare
    — 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).

词形变化

middle guards plural

词源

First sense first attested in 1871.
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