What does back-heel mean?

back-heel

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Frequency: 3.84 in modern English

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"It was Lampard, looking fresh from a three-month lay-off, who opened up the increasingly edgy defence with a delicate back-heel through to Kalou but the Ivorian could only slot the ball wide with the goal at his mercy."

back-heels (plural) back-heels (present, singular) back-heeling (participle, present) back-heeled (participle, past) back-heeled (past)

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