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Trackback vs Crackback - What's the difference?

trackback | crackback |

As a noun trackback

is (uncountable|computing) a method to keep track of links to content, especially blog entries.

As an adjective crackback is

(american football) describing a block in which the blocker, positioned wide, blocks back towards where the ball was snapped.

trackback

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (software, Internet, blogging) A protocol for a system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "TrackBack")

    Anagrams

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    crackback

    English

    Adjective

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  • (American football) Describing a block in which the blocker, positioned wide, blocks back towards where the ball was snapped.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 3, author=The Associated Press, title=Saban Needs More Time to Mull Alabama Offer, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Mike Pereira, the league’s director of officiating, said Wade did not commit an illegal crackback block because he was blocking upfield and not back toward the ball. }}