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☆ free safety

Football the safety who is without an assignment of covering a particular player on the other team and is, typically, responsible for defending against long pass plays

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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