right-half

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Noun

right-half (plural right-halves)

  1. (soccer, dated) A player who plays wide on the right side of midfield
    • 2020 October 30, Brian Glanville, “Nobby Stiles obituary”, in The Guardian:
      He had grown up admiring his United predecessor Eddie Colman, a right-half of greater natural gifts, who died in the Munich air disaster of 1958. By that time Stiles had already represented England schoolboys as a right-half, displaying attacking talents that would be somewhat inhibited in his later career.

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