rushed behind
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A behind (one-point score) made when the ball passes through the goal posts or behind posts not from the foot of the attacking team, i.e. either spilled off hands or deliberately carried through by the defenders.
Example Sentences
- "In another Friday-night match, in Round 15, the Western Bulldogs crushed us by sixty-four points; we managed just two rushed behinds in the last half-hour, while the Dogs piled on six goals."
- "Every one of those rushed behinds was either kicked, handballed, walked through or deliberately pushed across the line by a Hawthorn player."