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  • noun usually in combinations Someone in a team.

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Examples

  • It’s the worse feeling a coach could possible have: your starting point guard, the one who’s carried the team all these years, the one who’s just hitting his stride despite 8 consecutive all-star appearances, an MVP award, and who’sa three time all-defensive first teamer, is quitting.

    Who Will Replace Joaquin Phoenix? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008

  • At the entrance to the unclean little hotel they parted, Banneker going further to find Mindle the "teamer," whom he could trust and with whom he held conference, brief and very private.

    Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • Hagan isn't without receiving talent for a player so low on the depth chart, but he was primarily a special teamer in 2009.

    Fantasy Football: News, Profiles, Injuries &amp More 2010

  • He is, in every way, the anti-Randle El. (And yeah, Lorenzo Alexander was probably the actual best special teamer Sunday night, but he's not nearly as huggable.)

    Redskins-Colts, Best and Worst Dan Steinberg 2010

  • Four players average in double figures, including A-Sun player of the year Siarre Evans and first-teamer TaRonda Wiles.

    Sacramento: Stanford hopes to rule out west 2010

  • "It comes down to will and toughness at times; it's not always awesome scheme," said Wilson, another special teamer contending for a bigger role at linebacker.

    Special team? Redskins value desire over pedigree Sally Jenkins 2010

  • Belichick, whose team in 2010 signed former Jet tailback Danny Woodhead and this past offseason brought in ex-Jet special teamer James Ihedigbo, suggested to reporters that Ellis's performances against his club played a role in New England signing him.

    Former Jets Are Behind Enemy Lines Chris Herring 2011

  • LB Tony Gilbert is a valuable backup and special teamer. —

    Atlanta Falcons Team Report 2010

  • Kehl was a special teamer before being jettisoned early in 2010.

    Grading Drafts of Years Past Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011

  • I hold a special place in my heart for former New York Giant wide receiver and Pro Bowl special teamer David Tyree.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

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