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Football The backfield player whose position is behind the line of scrimmage and who usually calls the signals for the plays.
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Football To direct the offense of.
(verb-transitive)
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Slang To lead or direct the operations of: "needed someone to quarterback the [brain trust] for the first U.S. ICBM program” ( Forbes).
(verb-transitive)
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Football To play quarterback.
(verb-intransitive)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.