LINEMEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does linemen mean? 

• LINEMEN (noun)
  The noun LINEMEN has 1 sense:

1. the football players who line up on the line of scrimmage

  Familiarity information: LINEMEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINEMEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The football players who line up on the line of scrimmage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("linemen" is a kind of...):

line (a formation of people or things one beside another)

Meronyms (members of "linemen"):

lineman ((American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage)

Holonyms ("linemen" is a member of...):

eleven; football team (a team that plays football)