Definition of "full-backs" [full-backs]

• Plural form of full-back. (noun)

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• "All four of his recognised full-backs are injured, and he is also without Thomas Vermaelen, also injured, and the suspended Johan Djourou."
• "Even when Mancini gambled with a series of attacking substitutions at the Stadium of Light, City were unable to find the cracks in a resolute Sunderland defence featuring two midfield players deployed as emergency full-backs on either side of a pair of central defenders released during the summer as superfluous to Sir Alex Ferguson's requirements."
• "The manager has lost all four of his specialist full-backs, together with Johan Djourou, the centre-half who has provided cover at right-back of late, and Wenger will once again string four central defenders across his back-line for the trip to Aston Villa on Wednesday night."