onside
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- adjective
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- In football, a player is considered onside if they are behind the last defender when the ball is played.
- onside kick
- onside kick recovery
Examples
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Oakland tried an onside kick, but it ended up being recovered by Tampa Bay at the Raiders' 44-yard line.
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Indiana was an onside kick away from having a chance to shock them.
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No, it's an onside kick.
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Most people would kick it away, but let's go for the onside kick, coach."
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Brown pulled off a successful onside kick and had momentum that took them all the way to the Catholic 31.
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In this case, it hardly affected win probability since they absolutely had to recover an onside kick anyway.
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Rutgers recovered the onside kick.
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It's an onside kick!
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Coach Bill Curry elected to go for it four times on fourth down at various points in the game, converting one, and even called an onside kick with less than a minute remaining in the game that the Panthers recovered.
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However, the Sooners put together a late TD drive to cut the deficit to 26-20, then recovered an onside kick to set up a game-winning 41-yard field goal as time ran out.
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Antonyms
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Etymology
Onside is simply on + side, where on means 'in' and side means 'place' or 'position'. In sport the word came to mean a player is in the allowed position, so to be onside is to be in the right place to play.