slide-tackle
verb1
Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Soccer, Sports To tackle another player by sliding on the ground feet-first.
slide tackle
nounalso spelled slide-tackle1
Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Soccer, Sports a tackle to get the ball by sliding on the ground feet-first
- Christian Karembeu almost broke his supermodel wife's leg with a slide tackle during a football game in their back garden.2002 February 27, “Cruncher Karembeu takes it out on his wife”, in The Guardian:
- Synonyms
- sliding tackle