end around

noun

Updated on: 19 Apr 2018

Definition of end around

: a football play in which an offensive end comes behind the line of scrimmage to take a handoff and attempts to carry the ball around the opposite flank

Recent Examples of end around from the Web

For way too many Hall voters, rock ended around the time the eight-track tape format stopped selling.

— gavin edwards, Billboard, "How to Fix the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Op-Ed," 9 Apr. 2018
Precipitation will end around noon Monday, followed by some clearing.

— dave epstein, BostonGlobe.com, "After Monday’s snow, it’ll stay wet for a while," 2 Apr. 2018
During the last ice age, which ended around 11,700 years ago, many researchers believe, humans moved from Asia using a land bridge to reach North America -- now the west coast of British Columbia and south coastal regions of Canada.

— ashley strickland, CNN, "Ice age throwback: 13,000-year-old footprints found off Canadian coast," 28 Mar. 2018
The march starts near the corner of North Brook and East Witherspoon streets and is scheduled to end around 4:30 p.m.

— rachel aretakis, The Courier-Journal, "MAP: Saturday events in Louisville will close these roads downtown and into the Highlands," 23 Mar. 2018
Krishna Guha, an analyst at Evercore ISI, noted that the growth impulse from federal tax cuts and spending increases in 2018 will end around 2020, just as the Fed has pushed rates over 3% to keep inflation from overshooting.

— greg ip, WSJ, "Fed’s Mission Improbable: Lift Unemployment—but Avoid Recession," 22 Mar. 2018
Their longest run in that span was by receiver Nelson Agholor on an end around.

— jeff duncan, NOLA.com, "Sorry, America, the Patriots are going to win Super Bowl 52," 3 Feb. 2018
The goal is to offer two good concerts a month during hockey season, which ends around Memorial Day, and expand offerings after that.

— suzanne baker, Naperville Sun, "New Naperville entertainment/sports complex being designed with concerts in mind," 10 Mar. 2018
The final stop on her mini-tour deals with fossils like the mastodon, which dates to the most recent Ice Age that ended around 10,000 years ago in Wisconsin.

— brian e. clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "A mastodon and a meteor older than Earth are highlights of the UW Geology Museum," 9 Mar. 2018

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