War-daddy definition

(slang, American football, US) A player with extraordinary ability and exceptional toughness.

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Noun

Singular:

war-daddy

Plural:

war-daddies

Origin of war-daddy

The phrase may have originated with Harold T. White, a coach at Mississippi's Perkinston Junior College in the 1950s.

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