combo guard

noun

basketball : a basketball player who has the skills to play as a point guard or shooting guard

He said … he would convert me to a combo guard—that I would play shooting guard and some point guard.

—George Dohrmann, Play Their Hearts Out, 2010

Word History

First Known Use

1989, in the meaning defined above

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