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- noun Plural form of
linesman .
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Examples
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But that's why someone came up with the idea of linesmen and referees.
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The obvious answer is that nobody -- save, perhaps, a few defensive linesmen and a winning quarterback with Bible verses on his eyeblacks -- actually thinks that supernatural players joins the game in response to pre-game supplications.
Valerie Tarico: Is Praying Before Football Games Cheating? Valerie Tarico 2011
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But one of the linesmen had further inflamed things and was pursued off the pitch, out of the gate and down the road, Keystone Kops-style by angry players.
Diego Maradona dives in to Dubai and Chad Ochocinco seeks a room-mate 2011
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The on-ice officials are two refs and two linesmen.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right: 2010
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Gattuso as good as punched Joe Jordan in the face, and one of the linesmen clearly saw it.
Champions League: Five things we learned from Milan 0-1 Tottenham | Stuart James 2011
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The obvious answer is that nobody -- save, perhaps, a few defensive linesmen and a winning quarterback with Bible verses on his eyeblacks -- actually thinks that supernatural players joins the game in response to pre-game supplications.
Valerie Tarico: Is Praying Before Football Games Cheating? Valerie Tarico 2011
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The obvious answer is that nobody -- save, perhaps, a few defensive linesmen and a winning quarterback with Bible verses on his eyeblacks -- actually thinks that supernatural players joins the game in response to pre-game supplications.
Valerie Tarico: Is Praying Before Football Games Cheating? Valerie Tarico 2011
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Dean, an ex-marine, combat veteran, known as the toughest linesmen on the "GI-Bill Squad," -- the toughest football team in Harvard University's history -- wasn't tough enough to field that question.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Tucson: Time for Another Examination of Conscience Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2011
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The obvious answer is that nobody -- save, perhaps, a few defensive linesmen and a winning quarterback with Bible verses on his eyeblacks -- actually thinks that supernatural players joins the game in response to pre-game supplications.
Valerie Tarico: Is Praying Before Football Games Cheating? Valerie Tarico 2011
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Dean, an ex-marine, combat veteran, known as the toughest linesmen on the "GI-Bill Squad," -- the toughest football team in Harvard University's history -- wasn't tough enough to field that question.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Tucson: Time for Another Examination of Conscience Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2011
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