backman

Naija

Etymology

From: English backman

Pronunciation

• bàkmân

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 9
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 8597

Noun

• Na man wey im role na to dey make sure say ball no enta im side net

• Na backman we want.  — (Egbokhare _2020. It's a defender we want.)
• Leon Balogun na central backman wey dey 29 years.  — (bbc__63730, __Leon Balogun is a central defender and he is 29years old__)
• backman na dem suppose stand gidigba to make sure deir side no lose.  — (NSC_Legbeti _2021. It's a defender's role to protect his team from loosing.)

Synonyms

• defender

Antonyms

• frontman

Translations

• English: defender in soccer